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My personal <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 petrol station, so 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.
→East towards Bratislava, Győr and Budapest {{Aat|4}} {{European Route Number|60}}
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'''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 E56 (even if you come from southern Germany).
===From East, West===
If your driver heads to [[Slovakia]] ([[Bratislava]]), [[Hungary]] or the eastern [[Balkans]] they'll pass the Airport at "Schwechat". There is public transportation, of course, but if you are in the departure area there are a lot of drivers emptying their cars before going back to the city.
If you find yourself in a car that is passing through Vienna on the eastern ring road, try getting out around the Donau island (German: ''Donauinsel''), close to the river. From here you can walk to a metro-station that usually heads directly towards the centre of Vienna.
Take train (S50) to ''Wien Wolf in der Au''. Then cross over the bridge. You'll see the 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.
There is as well a big resting area with service station and hotel nearby which doesn't seem to be a good option.
:There were very few cars at the gas station, so I stood myself just next to the off ramp in front of the station so that drivers could see me and stop at the gas station. Howewer, after about 30 minutes, a car stopped right next to me on the highway (not even in emergency lane as there is not any). I think it was a bit dangerous but the rest of the ride was fine. So maybe draw an arrow next to your hh sign so that drivers realize that they can get off the highway. ''(Duffajfka July 2017)''
==== Option 2 ====
<p>From here you can as well get to option "1" by crossing the motorway via the bridge and walk for about 2km to the right.
It's a good spot. I was with sighn "Linz" and car stopped in 3 minutes direction Linz. If you don't want use metro you also can get this option by tram № 49 (it's starts from Volksteatre ring), get out in Rettichgasse stop, and walk by Rettichgasse down direction this spot.(Masha, 24 july 2019)
=== North towards [[Prague]] ===
====Option 2====
Take the [httphttps://www.g3-shopping.at/fileadmin/datauser_upload/01_homeCENTERS/G3G/center/G3_Bus-Shuttle_Flyer_2016_Web.pdf free bus to G3 Shopping Center] (Feb., 2017verified on April 2019). The Bus starts from trainstation the regional buses' stop in front of the "Floridsdorf Bahnhof"train station, they depart in 30 minute intervals, timetable is on the home pagemore frequently during Fridays/Saturdays, first bus at 08:00am. If you do make the terrible mistake of taking the local bus instead of the free one, it will cost you 4.20 euro and you can't black-ride, as it's paid to the driver. From where the bus stops, 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 "Eni" (the yellow one) and next to that there is a free, unused lane for cars and trucks to stop easily. [https://goo.gl/maps/a9pXqeusHft GoogleMaps Footpath] Verified 23Aug2018: Good 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. Also when hitch hiking from ENI petrol station close to G3 shoppong point just ask anyone to take you to 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 right. Dont miss it. If you reach here dont jump into first car that offers you ride. Take a car that is going almost 50% or atleast 300 kms in your direction. Simply because all long distance cars stop here no matter what direction. If you are heading to Olomouc Brno or Poland get a car that gets you atleast to Poland direct. After this there are very few stops thay can match this one. Dont get into a car hoping to hop off at the next gas station. Be patient and you will get a very good ride here. April 2019: ''[[user:uncle_sam01]] hitched to Brno from the autobahn on-ramp and waited for almost 2 hours. The spot is 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. A sign probably makes sense here, uncle_sam01 had a "CZ" one. LOTS of Polish people.
=== East towards [[Bratislava]], [[Győr]] and [[Budapest]] {{Aat|4}} {{European Route Number|60}} ===
To get to this petrol station by public transport, take metro line U3 to ''Enkplatz'' and from there you can take a bus 76A to ''7. Haidequerstraße'' (the bus stop is on the other side of the street at the intersection when you leave the metro station). Be careful because there are two stops with almost the same name, ''7. Haidequerstraße'' and ''11. Haidequerstraße'' – get off at the first one, which comes after the stop ''Simmeringer Haide''. After the stop, the bus turns right, but to get to the petrol station, walk straight on on to the north for just 200 m. The petrol station is on the [[A4 (Austria)|A4]] highway towards Bratislava, Győr and Budapest.
Once you have reached the petrol station, just wait near the entrance and ask drivers entering the shop. (Hitchhiking from the petrol station exit or thumbing at cars on the road itself is not advisable.[<<though the experience of [[User:Movethathoof|Movethathoof]] as explained below militates against the advice not to hitch from the highway entrance]) 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 charge you for the ride; make sure before you accept a lift from a Romanian driver that you are not going to pay by saying e.g. ''E gratis? / N-am bani sa va dau.'' ‘''"Is the lift free? / I can't pay.’
Most of the cars passing in this petrol station are coming off the motorway or going to the airport. You can get more cars going to [[Slovakia]] or [[Hungary]] if you take the first ride to the next petrol station on the motorway, named Göttlesbrunn, which is just before road splits into the E58 towards Bratislava and the E60 towards Budapest. The E60 road enters Hungary at the [[Hegyeshalom-Nickelsdorf border crossing]].
If your ultimate destination is [[Romania]], then ask your driver to leave you at the [[Hegyeshalom-Nickelsdorf border crossing]] and hitch from there with a sign "RO".
* [[User:Antonopa|Antonopa]] (April 2017) The place is OK, I got a ride from an uber driver pretty quickly who took me to the airport where he was going for a job, from there quite easily got a ride to Bratislava. Not a bad spot.
* [[User:Movethathoof|Movethathoof]] in October 2019 had great luck at this spot. There's a recyclables dumpster right there with cardboard if needed, but he didn't even have time to make a sign before he had a ride into Hungary. Despite the above stated misgivings, he stood right at the entrance from the McDonald's and gas station to the highway; there isn't really any place to stop, but the lane is wide and traffic is going quite slowly. Though the flow was steady there was time enough between cars that it didn't seem like it would cause problems. He didn't expect that a truck would venture to stop for him there (as despite being judged fine for a car, a truck stopping did seem like it would obstruct traffic), but it was a kind Ukrainian trucker who stopped for him, horns quickly blaring behind us as an impatient motorist hurried us along.
=== South towards [[Graz]], [[Slovenia]], [[Zagreb]] {{Aat|2}}===
Take the free IKEA bus from the Opera ("Oper" Metro Station Karlsplatz: lines 1,2,4) 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.
I hitchhiked from the Shopping city for one hour in rain before getting a ride. Next time I discovered the place at the end of ''Triester Straße'' where I got a ride in 20 min. My friend often uses that spot now. I think it is the best spot in direction Graz.
For everyone going to Slovenia or Zagreb, know that there are no petrol station on your side of the road some 100 kilometres before Graz. The first one is near Leibnitz, some 15-20 km after Graz. So if someone offers you a ride to Graz, try to see if they'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 sign for Maribor on roads going out of the city towards the highway. The petrol station near Leibnitz is on the way to Maribor.
