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--[[User:Roelguldemond|Roelguldemond]] ([[User talk:Roelguldemond|talk]]) 12:19, 11 December 2013 (CET)
''Comment by Roel september 2017 : I edited this page intensively. I have been deleting quite some information which seemed to be outdated. Or redundant. This information Roel are presented in several different options. Sure there are more possibilities. But I have tried most of these possibilities myself.''
=== A22/E17 North towards [[Antwerpen|Antwerp]], [[Brussels]], [[Gent]], [[Netherlands]] ===
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You can avoid getting stuck in Lille by getting out at the last petrol station on the A1 on "Aire de Phalempin" is quite a big station, good for hitching, and it's 15 km due south from the centre. However, in direction of Brussels it might be a bit difficult there. Most people go towards Ghent and Antwerp there.
Otherwise, take the tram-line T to Chateau Rouge. As you get out, you can see the motorway. The spot is the motorway slip road. There's not a lot of traffic, but there is space for drivers to safely pull over and pick you up.
Or else, get to the petrol station on the N356 about 800m north of metro station Mons Sarts. (Need to jump a small fence and a 2 meter drop! There is a place for your foot so you can slide and jump, but it is still quite a wall). From here you can find lifts going into Belgium and have the chance to talk to drivers.
The '''border''' is not a good spot anymore. It is now just a big parking lot where trucks stop, all sign of the previous building there have vanished, it is not possible to hitch on the highway anymore and hardly any car stop there. To get there you'll have to take the Line 2 of the metro until "C. H. Dron" (last stop, and actually already in Tourcoing, not in Lille). And walk 30 to 45 Min to it there is an access road with to fence or barrier stopping people on foot. You might be able to get a ride to the petrol station 5 km into Belgium at Kortrijk where loads of Netherland folk stop for a refill but it will be hard.
* '''Last verified''': August 2012. The best place to go anywhere is the hard shoulder near Porte d'Arras Metro station - just follow the signs to Highway (this is the same as '''Option 1''', see above, in the section "Going South"). Within 20 minutes many cars heading towards every directions stopped. To Brussels use sign B and you get there very easy.
== Dunkerque, Calais, England, A25 ==