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__TOC__{{Infobox Location|country = Austria|state = Vienna|pop = 1,794,770 (January 2015)|motorways = {{Aat|1}} {{Aat|2}} {{Aat|4}}|map = <map lat='48.2210033' lng='16.3744363449' zoom='1011' view='3' float='right' />}}'''Vienna''' ('''Wien''' in German, '''Bécs''' in Hungarian, '''Vídeň''' in Czech, '''Viedeň''' in Slovak, '''Dunaj''' in Slovene, '''Beč''' in Serbo-Croatian) is the capital of [[Austria]].It is in the east of the country on the river Danube. More than 1,.6 million people live there. It is the largest city of Austria and is surrounded by the state of [[Lower Austria]]. It is also an administrative district (Bundesland) of its own.

You should then seriously consider coming by the {{European Route Number|56}} E56 (even if you come from southern Germany).

* ===From East, West===If you find yourself in a car that is passing through Vienna on the eastern ring road, try getting out around the Donau island your driver heads to [[Slovakia]] (German: Donauinsel[[Bratislava]]), close to [[Hungary]] or the eastern [[Balkans]] they'll pass the riverAirport at "Schwechat". From here There is public transportation, of course, but if you can walk are in the departure area there are a lot of drivers emptying their cars before going back to a metro-station that usually heads directly towards the centre of Viennacity.

== Hitchhiking If you find yourself in a car that is passing through Vienna on the eastern ring road, try getting out ===== West around the Donau island (German: ''Donauinsel''), close to the river. From here you can walk to a metro-station that usually heads directly towards [[Linz]], [[Salzburg]], [[Munich]] {{European Route Number|60}}, A1 ===the centre of Vienna.

You will often find yourself, especially at night, on the E60 passing south of Vienna. '''I dont know if trucks can go there since you have to go through an underpass:''' Jump out at the exit "Campus 21"/"Breitenfurterstrasse" [https://goo.gl/maps/arqWXJGH2eD2 GoogleMaps]. Take care since it is an exit with 2 exits, you should keep as right as possible! About 100m further there is a)First choice roundabout where you can jump out and the car can get directly back to the highway. From that roundabout it is about 3km to the next U-Bahn, the final stop of U6. I found this to be the shortest way to get to public transport. If you come at night, there is a gas stationso called ASTAX, you call a number, and from the moment when there are enough people that want to go a small bus comes and picks you up, you pay by buying a regular ticket (OMV[http://www.wienerlinien.at/media/download/2015/ASTAX_N64_141310.pdf Number, Schedule, ... in German]) . The ASTAX will bring you to the night bus N64 that is driving through basically all Vienna ([http://www.netzplanwien.at the "/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Nachtnetz-Wien_20131215.pdf map in German for public nightlines in Vienna]). [[User:Farben.rausch|Farben.rausch]] ([[User talk:Farben.rausch|talk]]) 19:03, 5 March 2016 (CET) == Hitching out ===== West towards [[Linz]], [[Salzburg]], [[Munich]] {{Aat|1}} {{European Route Number|60}} ======= Option 1: OMV petrol station on Wiener Straße" that becomes the national route (A1 shortly after.) ====Get a Take train (S50) to "''Wien Wolf in der Au" then ''. Then cross over the Bridgebridge. You'll see the gas petrol station after about 300m to your left. Cross the bridge and then it's a short walk behind the barrier along the side of the road.

b)==== Option 2 ====Take the U4 to ''Hütteldorf'', get off and go towards ''Hadikgasse'' (left), walk left again, then you are right on the main road leading out of '''Vienna''' towards the A1. There is a bus stop which is a well known hitching spot. Change cars (if necessary) at the [[rest area]]s ''[[Sankt Pölten|St. Pölten]]'' or ''Ansfelden''. Since a direct ride to Salzburg is possible try to avoid "part-rides" and avoid going to St. Polten at all cost- the traffic there is very low and mostly local.<p>From here you can as well get to option "a)1" by crossing the motorway via the bridge and walk for about 2km to the right.

=== North towards [[Brno]] ([[Czech Republic]]) {{European Route Number|461}} === 

====Option 1====From central Wien take a tram nr.31 to the last stationstop, ''Stammersdorf''. Continue on your right down the main street, Brünner Str (road nrno. &nbsp;7); pass go past the "Merkur" supermarket till until you come to another shopping centercentre, about 300m 300&nbsp;m further. Hitchhike right after the entrance to the parking lot. All  You can use a sign "Brno", but if you don't get a lift after 30 minutes, then just hitchhike without a sign and ask any driver to take you to Wolkersdorf or Mistelbach. There is a huge petrol station 5&nbsp;km north of Wolkersdorf and from there it is easy to find a lift into the Czech Republic. ====Option 2====Take the traffic [https://www.g3-shopping.at/fileadmin/user_upload/CENTERS/G3G/center/G3_Bus-Shuttle_Flyer_2016_Web.pdf free bus to Brno passes hereG3 Shopping Center] (verified on April 2019). The Bus starts from the regional buses' stop in front of the "Floridsdorf Bahnhof" train station, although bear they depart in mind that many cars leave this road before 30 minute intervals, more frequently during Fridays/Saturdays, first bus at 08:00am. If you do make the terrible mistake of taking the local bus instead of the border free one, it will cost you 4.20 euro and turn eastwards onto some country roads to get you can't black-ride, as it's paid to the Slovak motorwaydriver. In case your driver continues past BrnoFrom where the bus stops, ask him/her to drop you off at cross the parking lot towards the big street that the bus had taken out of Vienna and cross that street. There is a petrol station "OlimpiaEni" shopping center which is situated on (the motorway – from yellow one) and next to that there you will find is a free bus , unused lane for cars and trucks to central Brnostop easily. [https://goo.gl/maps/a9pXqeusHft GoogleMaps Footpath]

Personal experience (April 2011)Verified 23Aug2018: I am from ViennaGood option, however at last or end metro station make sure to travel with a ticket because there can be a lot of controllers. Fines are strict. I hitchhiked Also when hitch hiking from this spot ENI petrol station close to G3 shoppong point just ask anyone to get take you to BRNO very successfully in highway towards Brno or Mistelbach and beware on this Highway is the Best Gas Station OMV with MacDonalds. About 10 minutes by car or 13 kms drive on the last years, but last time i waited for 2hours, gave up and took a busright.Dont miss it.If you reach here dont jump into first car that offers you ride. I guess since the new motorway (north around the city) Take a car that is finished many going almost 50% or atleast 300 kms in your direction. Simply because all long distance cars don´t pass "Stammersorf" any more. Next time i will try on-ramps from the city but it will be more difficult nowstop here no matter what direction. (my ideas If you are traffic lights "Erdberger Lände" towards the motorway close heading to U3-stop "Schlachthausgasse" Olomouc Brno or on-ramps at Kagran (U1Kagran), or traffic lights at Lassallestraße close Poland get a car that gets you atleast to U1/U2-stop "Praterstern" - Poland direct. After this there are very few stops thay can match this is one. Dont get into a car hoping to hop off at the street the bus takes)next gas station. Be patient and you will get a very good ride here.

Personal experience (April 2019: ''[[Useruser:Endrju88|Endrju88uncle_sam01]]Endrju88 hitched to Brno from the autobahn on- August 2012): I chose this ramp and waited for almost 2 hours. The spot and I had no problems thereis not ideal, but probably better than the gas station. There's a side road further on the on-ramp, so do go all the way to where the lanes merge. I A sign probably makes sense here, uncle_sam01 had sign for a "BrnoCZ" and I've been waiting less than 30 minutes, then car stopedone. LOTS of Polish people. I would reccomend this spot!

Personal experience ([[User:jurarafal]]]jurarafal - May 2012):I used to hitch out of Vienna pretty often till 2010. I always went with the tram 31 to the end. Then walked to a traffic ligths near Billa at Brunerstrasse (later the market has changed its name to some another one) & asked (or showed a sign to a driver who stopped at a traffic light) for a lift till Drasenhoffen or Mikulov. As the border was a perfect place to get a lift directly to Poland, which was my aim.Now I only once used this method but I asked a driver to give me a lift to a Volkersdorf or Mistelbach as on the motorway there is a new, lovely, huge tankstation 5 km north of Volkersdorf. Once there it is easy to hitch a ride northwards === East towards [[Bratislava]], [[Győr]] and [[Budapest]] {{Aat|4}} {{European Route Number|60}} === There is an OMV [[File:SDC13249.jpg|thumb|right|200pxpetrol station hitchhiking|The OMV petrol station]]Cultural note: Watch out for Romanian drivers who may attempt with a McD on the motorway to charge Budapest where you for the can easily find a ride to Bratislava, [[Hungary]] or further. To get to this petrol station by public transport, take metro line U3 to ''Enkplatz'' and/or drop from there you off in can take a remote area if bus 76A to ''7.&nbsp;Haidequerstraße'' (the bus stop is on the other side of the street at the intersection when you donleave the metro station). Be careful because there are two stops with almost the same name, 't pay'7. Make clear before you sit in a Romanian car that you ain&nbsp;Haidequerstraße'' and 't gonna pay: '11.&nbsp;Haidequerstraße'"Is ' – get off at the first one, which comes after the lift free? / I canstop ''Simmeringer Haide''t pay." - "E gratis? / N-am bani sa va dauAfter the stop, the bus turns right, but to get to the petrol station, walk straight on on to the north for just 200&nbsp;m. The petrol station is on the [[A4 (Austria)|A4]] highway towards Bratislava, Győr and Budapest."''

There is an OMV [[Once you have reached the petrol station hitchhiking|, just wait near the entrance and ask drivers entering the shop. (Hitchhiking from the petrol station]] exit or thumbing at cars on the motorway road itself is not advisable.) Cars with foreign number plates regularly pull into the station, and these drivers are likely going abroad. Note: Watch out for Romanian drivers who may attempt to Budapest where charge you can easily find a for the ride to Bratislava or further into [[Slovakia]].To get to this petrol station by public transport ; make sure before you should get to ''Enkplatz'' (by Metro U3) and accept a lift from there a Romanian driver that you can take a bus number 76A are not going to ''7pay by saying e. Haidequerstraße''g. Be careful because there are two stops with the same name, ''7E gratis? / N-am bani sa va dau. Haidequerstraße'' and ''11. Haidequerstraße‘'' – get off at "Is the first one, which comes after lift free? / I can''Simmeringer Haide''. After the stop, the bus turns right, but to get to the petrol station, walk straight on on ''Haidequerstraße'' to the north for a couple of minutes. The petrol station is on the [[A4 (Austria)|A4]] highway towards Bratislava, Győr and Budapestt pay. ’

=== South towards If your ultimate destination is [[GrazRomania]], then ask your driver to leave you at the [[SloveniaHegyeshalom-Nickelsdorf border crossing]], [[Zagreb]] ===Take the free IKEA bus and hitch from the Opera ("Operthere with a sign " Metro Station Karlsplatz: lines 1,2,4) to the SCS (RO"Shopping City Süd") 8:00/10:00/11:30/13:00/14:30/16:00/17:30 (Feb 2011). If it happens that you don't get a ride and want to use the same bus to come back to town it won't be free anymore, it costs 1.50 euros.

Other option if you want to pay 3.40 euros for the train then take the ''Badener Bahn'' to ''Maria-Enzersdorf (Südstadt)'' Advantages of the latter one: it goes more often and earlier in the morning than the bus. If you take the train, you can go to one station after ''Shopping City Süd'' which is called ''Maria-Enzersdorf (Südstadt)''. This one is closer to the actual * [[slip roadUser:Antonopa|interchangeAntonopa]]: just get off the train(April 2017) The place is OK, head the direction you came I got a ride from, turn right by an uber driver pretty quickly who took me to the end of the platformairport where he was going for a job, cross the tracks, pass 100 m of wild grass and from there is quite easily got a ride to Bratislava. Not a curved street – you'll see the signsbad spot.

=== South towards [[Graz]], [[Slovenia]], [[Zagreb]] {{Aat|2}}===Take the free IKEA bus from U6 Siebenhirten to the SCS ("Shopping City Süd") 8:00/10:00/11:30/13:00/14:30/16:00/17:30 (Feb 2011). If it happens that you don't get a ride and want to use the same bus to come back to town it won't be free any more, it costs 1.50 euro. Other option if you want to pay EUR 3.40 for the train then take the ''Badener Bahn'' to ''Maria-Enzersdorf (Südstadt)'' Advantages of the latter one: it goes more often and earlier in the morning than the bus. If you take the train, you can go to one station after ''Shopping City Süd'' which is called ''Maria-Enzersdorf (Südstadt)''. This one is closer to the actual [[slip road|interchange]]: just get off the train, head the direction you came from, turn right by the end of the platform, cross the tracks, pass 100 m of wild grass and there is a curved street – you'll see the signs. Alternatively you can take public transport to ''Matzleinsdorfer Platz'' where the ''Triester Straße'' begins [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Triester+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+Vienna,+%C3%96sterreich&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.674078,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Triester+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+Favoriten+1100+Wien,+Austria&z=15] (direction South-West). This road is extremely long but it has on-ramps for heading South ([[Graz]]). Try hitching along this road, or ask at the petrol station. If you keep walking down there is a perfect place for hitchiking hitchhiking where cars take the exit and join the highway. There is a lot of grass and a perfect place with enough room for even a truck to stop.

Sean and Maria sat at this onramp at the Shopping City for 3.5 hours before we caught a ride (looking at appx approximately 4000 cars). It is a very busy place, but most cars are heading back up to Vienna. We may have had really bad luck (weekday afternoon) but we recommend standing on the inside part of the curve, because the cars have to be in the right lane in order to get on the highway (left lane is to the shopping centercentre). There is a smaller place to pull over, but it might be worth it. BIG '''Big''' sign might help.

If you are okay OK with hitchhiking at traffic lights, you can also just go to "Schönbrunn" with U4 (underground – green line). Cross the street and walk towards the entrance of Schönbrunn-castle. Now you are on "Grünbergstraße". Here you can try to hitchhike from the traffic lights. This street leads to "Altmannsdorfer Straße" which leads to A2 (the motorway leading to the south)

I hitchiked hitchhiked from the Shopping city for one hour in rain before getting a ride. Next time i I discovered the place at the end of ''Triester Straße'' where i I got a ride in 20 min. My friend often uses that spot now. I think it is the best spot in direction Graz.

<b>Personal experience</b>* I used that spot in Triester Strasse with Computerstrasse this pass october 2015 right before the petrol station and i was picked up in less that 15 min, made it to Split that day.--[[User:Yeguaerrante|Yeguaerrante]] ([[User talk:Yeguaerrante|talk]]) 12:53, 18 November 2015 (CET)* There is a perfect place at 'Triester Straße' where is crosses with 'Computerstrasse'. Bus 16a goes directly to the spot. It's the last big interception before the Triester Strasse turns into a highway, cars coming from upfront, left and right can see you perfectly and a few steps further there is a gas petrol station, so hitchtakers drivers can stop for you, or you can just ask people. I never had to ask more than a handful of people to get a ride down south.*[[User:Chillion|Chillion]]: (2018, May, afternoon 1pm) This is an alright spot. I hitched just before the bus stop outside the Petrol station towards Graz with a sign. Waited 2.5 hours. Maybe I was unlucky.== Fare Evading == It's quite easy For everyone going to ride Slovenia or Zagreb, know that there are no petrol station on your side of the subwayroad some 100 kilometres before Graz. The first one is near Leibnitz, bus, and tram system with no ticketsome 15-20 km after Graz. One Vienna's local (who actually did use So if someone offers you a year pass) told sheride to Graz, try to see if they'd been checked once re maybe going to Leibnitz or past Leibnitz. There are many people from Maribor working in Graz, so if you end up in Graz, try using a period sign for Maribor on roads going out of over a year despite riding public transport every daythe city towards the highway. The petrol station near Leibnitz is on the way to Maribor.

Another website where It is possible to ride the passengers inform where subway, bus, and when did they see controllers: http://schwarzkapplertram system with no ticket, though at your own risk. Buses and trams are almost never controlled (except night buses and in the first month of each semester, e.g.info/ Main Austrian cities October and some German as wellMarch), but checks on the metro are rather frequent. Also they check trams around center. Facebook The fine is '''EUR 103''', but foreigners can give a fake address in their home country and Twitter pagesavoid paying.

:t0ma5 has used There is an internet site with a list of the metro lines which are going to be checked for 2 months black riders (feb-mar 2011) following the advice of http://apps.vienna.at/tools/schwarzkappler/ ). Schwarzkappler is an Austrian slang term for the ticket controllers. Although the site takes her information from a reliable source (the "Wiener Linien" itself) there had not been yet proof of how reliable that information is. Another website where the passengers tell of where and when they have seen controllers is http://schwarzkappler.info/, with information for major Austrian cities and some German cities as well, with Facebook and never saw any controlTwitter pages.

:I got controlled 5 times within 5 months in Take line U3 of the metro to the subway, so I wouldnstation ''Erdberg't say it's quite easy . Exit the station, then walk 300&nbsp;m southeast to blackride..the pedestrian bridge over the railway tracks. This pedestrian bridge will bring you over the railway tracks, the Danube canal and the fine is 70€motorway. But for buses and tramwaysOn the other side, it's almost never controlled (except night buses!). If you're behind a foreignerfew houses, there is a vast park where you still can give pitch a fake address tent. You can even sleep late, as in your homeland country, the mornings the only passers-by are joggers and you wonriders on horseback. [[File:Vienna-erdberg-sleeping.png|200px|thumb|left|The walk from Vienna't get in troubles U3 metro station Erdberg to a park for camping.]]