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'''Paris''' is the capital of [[France]]. It is situated within a ring road called ''le périphérique'', or ''le périph''. The actual city is actually relatively small , but is surrounded by endless suburbs, some of them being which are linked to the urban public transportation system at no extra cost(i.e. a standard one-trip city ticket), and while some other others being labelled as outside zones and thus more expensive to reach.
Note that there is an "outer ring road" to the Paris suburb area, motorway A86 (or ''super-périphérique'') and another wider ring even further called "la Francillienne" which isn't completed but still used to connect . If your ride is not going to Paris itself, you might want to clarify which ring they are going to take as it may affect the place where you'd want to be dropped. You may also find them useful if you need to bypass Paris, especially the Francilienne, as it has more gas stations and less complex interchanges.
__TOC__ == Hitchhiking Hitching out ==
There are plenty of excellent spots for hitchhiking North (''Aire La Courneuve''), East ([[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol stations]] and ''[[péage|barrières de péage]]'') and also South (''Aire de Lisses''). It's all about how much you are willing to pay in public transportation, and how daring you are.
=== North/Northeast towards [[England]], [[Lille]] and [[Belgium]] {{afr|1}} ===
These are classified by cost in public transportation from Paris' centre. There is a bonus pro-tip at the bottom involving Arras :)
==== Option 1: Porte de la Chapelle ====
This option costs one local ticket. Porte de la Chapelle is where the [[A1 (France)|A1]] starts. Local drivers say they often see hitchhikers there. To get there , take a the metro line 12 to ''Porte de la Chapelle'', then walk to the roundabout. You can try getting a ride on the roundabout (there are traffic lights, which means that cars have to stop) or you can stand on the opposite side facing the roundabout where the motorway starts. Another good option is to start hitchhiking in the same street where the metro is. There are 2 petrol stations in that very street, just 50m deeper into the city. They aren't overcrowdedand, and at the same time , quite a few cars going up the North north stop here for to refill; nonetheless, at such places , much is depended depends on your luck, and according to some hitchhikers , this place won't make it to the TOP10 top 10 best hitchhiking places in France. It is therefore rather recommended to hitchhike at the roundabout , where a quiet lane right by the traffic lights gives you a good opportunity to get onto the motorway (avoiding at the same time all the traffic that heads for ''Boulevard PeriphiquePeripherique'').
==== Option 2: Motorway services Aire La Courneuve ====
[[File:Masaru.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Hitchhiker Masaru at ''Aire La Courneuve'']]
Attention: in the winter / early spring or after the rain walking down the hill to the motorway might be difficult because of mud. In February it took 2 hitchhikers almost 40 minutes to walk down and reach the fence, after numerous attempts to keep the balance and not to fall down. It might be a good idea in this case to hitch from the entrance of the highway, right at the cross before you turn to the parking lot of the apartment complex.
==== Service station at Survilliers Option 4: Motorway services Aire de Vémars Est====
For 351 Bus Route refer to link belowhttp://www.ratp.fr/informer/pdf/orienter/f_plan.php?loc=bus_banlieue/300&nompdf=351&fm== Senlis Péage ====pdf
==== Option 5: Senlis has no train station, but you still buy the ticket from a train station. From Paris Nord, go to Chantilly and switch to a bus to Senlis at the "gare routière" right outside of Chantilly's train station with your ticket. Once there, you need to walk a little and you'll find a "péage" (motorway payment station - people have to stop to take a ticket). The bus driver gave me the directions. This should take around one hour.Péage ====
Take RER A to station ''Bussy St.Georges''Quite long trip . You can also get to this RER A station by taking bus 4 or 44 from metro station ''Gutenberg''.'' Make your way west to the D35 and then walk south along it for about 1km to a roundabout. You can try hitchhiking from here, but the service station is just a bit expensivemore than 2 km from here. Takes you You can walk on the grass field next to the motorway - don't choose this way in the morning or in autumn/winter as the grass is wet. The petrol station is called ''Aire de Ferrières'' and it's a great gas "TOTAL" company. Another option to reach this petrol station. better if you speak french is to walk through the industrial zone of the ''Bussy'' district, which lies south of the railway, crossing the bridge over the motorway and good daythen continuing on by walking on the grass until the actual petrol station (note that as of February 2011, there was a nice-and-nightsized fence to hop after crossing the bridge. Nothing too difficult, but a big backpack makes it harder!).Most of the walk will be on the road which means you will save some time while at the same time such a walk won't be so annoying if you happen to hitchhike in winter (then you apparently don't want to go through the fields).
Take the RER Line A (Red) in the direction of ''Boissy St Legere'' until the station ''Nogent Sur Marne'' (EUR 2€2.70 75 (2010-112016)). Leave the station in direction of ''Rue Joinville'' and follow the sign to the A4. It is a 30 min minute walk. There is a red light before the onrampslip road (on-ramp). Lots of traffic, possibility to stop on the ramp for brave drivers.
Ask if your driver can take you at least to the next petrol station which is within the free motorway network. Toll gate is a bit further.
=== Getting South or Southwest (A6, A10 or A11) = Option 3. From within the city limits: Quai de Bercy ====''Cheap, as you will only need a metro ticket and pretty fast too.''
Whenever a diplomat travels between Paris and the Orly airport, he'''!! ll go through here. Which means that there will be police presence. The A6b road connecting Porte dpolice don'italie and A6 t care about you, but it is closed until autumn 2011 very unlikely anyone will stop while they are around. That happens often enough. They stick around for tunnel reconstructionone hour. All the traffic is diverted through Porte d'Orleans or other roads.''''''
=== A6 South to [[Lyon]], [[Marseille]], [[Barcelona]], [[Italy]] = Option 2: Porte d'Italie ====
This option costs EUR 5.85 (but possible to have ride without ticket also), a zone 1–5 ticket and takes roughly 75 minutes. '''Aire de Lisses''' is the first service area on the A6, situated about 35 km South of Paris. It's a very good spotcan save you time because you avoid all outbound traffic not really heading your direction, being located after all the motorway branch-offs.
==== Massy Palaiseau Option 2: Motorway services Aire de Nemours ====
The A10 and A11 motorways follow the route of the '''Motorway ramp optionA6''': Go down (see above) from Paris, and split from it near [[Antony]]/[[Rungis]]. Then, before the ''Avenue Carnot'' along A10 and the ''Massy-Palaiseau'' railwayA11 split up, towards there is the ''autoroute''. After a while there you will see a long stretch service station of Limours-Janvry near Briis-sous-Forges and a road with lots [[péage]] near St-Arnoult, 40 km Southwest of space for cars. Keep going and you will reach a roundaboutParis. If Whichever spot you keep following this roadchoose, ask the driver to take you will reach a motorway exit underneath a bridge. Make sure to get a ride to at least until the Limours-Janvry service station or the first ''barrière de péage'' (30+ km) at of St-Arnoult . From these places, you can find a driver who takes you on the A10 or the A11 depending on which way you want to the Briis-sous-Forges service station 5 km down the roadgo.
=== A11 South-West to [[Le Mans]], [[Nantes]], [[Rennes]] and all parts of [[Bretagne|Brittany]] = Option 2: Motorway junction Massy Palaiseau ====[[File:ZoeThis option costs EUR 4.90, a ticket for zones 1-4.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hitchhiker Zoe in Paris during This option is useful to get out of the [[project 888|888]] event]]This motorway splits from ring roads and get directly on the A10 near ''Dourdan''after all the branch-offs. There are several possibilities go get on this motorway:
== Paris public transport == Option 3: Motorway service station Limours-Janvry ====Public transport in Paris consists The first service station on the motorway is called Limours-Janvry and it is situated 2kms northeast of a metro (lines from number 1 the village ''Briis-sous-Forges''. To get there you need to 14), take RER (fast trains serving the suburbs with relatively few inner city stopsB to ''Massy-Palaiseau''. From there take bus 91.03 to ''Briis-sous-Forges''. It runs about 3 times an hour on weekdays, lines from letter A to E)once an hour on Saturdays, and there are no buses (lines from number 20 to .on Sundays.Then walk northeast along the small local road ''Route d'Invilliers''.?) and trams (lines from T1 It's not easy to T4). If you want to make a few voyages, find the cheapest option is to buy a carnet of 10 single tickets (12,50 euros instead of 1,70 each - July 2011). You can travel road to the end of RER lines for about 15 eurospetrol station. If no one in this village knows what street he is living in let alone that route you stay in Paris 're looking for several days and will use transport often you can also buy . They don't even know that there's a pass "Mobilis" for one or several days (EUR 5petrol station in the area.90 write the instructions and study the map!! I was lost in this village for one day inside Pariscouple of hours) .[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=D131&daddr=Aire+de+Service+de+Limours- it is valid on metroJanvry&geocode=FT3X5QIdxnEgAA%3BFZke5gIdK7wgAA&hl=en&mra=ltm&dirflg=w&sll=48.64455, RER and ground transportation2.16575&sspn=0. If you stay for a week or more - consider geting a "passe Navigo découverte"115917, which is a chargeable card with picture (5 euros to make)0. You can then buy a weekly ticket for EUR 17338173&ie=UTF8&ll=48.20626839,2. Note that this replaces the former "Carte Orange"135124&spn=0. All prices as of Winter 2010028989,0.084543&t=h&z=14 Briis-sous-Forges to the petrol station map]
=== Metro system = Option 4: Péage de Saint-Arnoult ====Ticket checks never occur You can take the RER C train to Dourdan. There are no controls on the exit, so if you are on actual the cheap, you need to pay only the basic metro trainsticket (some EUR 1.33) to get into the underground network in Paris. Once in Dourdan, cross the railroad track and ticket controllers seem turn left and then go straight on the D836 until you reach the péage after 4-5 kilometers. You should be able to employ 1 of 2 approaches: first one includes ticket controllers forming hitch a line inside a metro tunnel or station exit car as there are many passing by and checking all the exiting travelers (since French take easily on small routes if they are uniformed it is easy to see them from a distance unless they decide to hide around you walking. Get off just after the corner); second one involves civil-dressed controllers watching road crosses the gates autoroute, go left and busting those jumping over - they'll either stop them directly themselvesin a short while, or radio-report to uniformed controllers who you will reach the péage. Look at the map beforehand! You have much higher chances here then will ask a stopped person to show a valid ticketanywhere else, there are lots of cars going through.
=== Fines and punishments = In the suburbs ====French transport police won't make any exceptions for foreigners- Mantes-La-Jolie toll: take Transilien J suburban train from Saint-Lazare station. Although it The fare is said it might €8 but you may not be possible to talk them out of fining a "dumb tourist" they are mainly hostilecontrolled. Most commonly they will ask for a 40 euro fine which can be paid directly Get off in cash or by credit cardMantes-La-Jolie (not Mantes Station). Alternatively you can plead poverty, and if you show a valid ID they will post There's a fine 30 minute walk to the address and toll gate: check the name written on IDmap.
[[File:888_signs.jpg|thumb|240px|right|A small collection of the "Paris" signs for the [[Project 888]] where over 150 hitchhikers gathered and camped in front of the Eiffel Tower.]]
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