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[[User:OlcheMaith|Nina]] used the first spot twice, the first time waiting quite long for a ride and the second time having no luck at all. I headed to the second spot, reached it, but the nearest petrol station was very small, and the big one was close but unreachable by foot. I walked to the east until IKEA where it was possible to cross the highway, and there waited on Limmatstrasse before the exit that leads to the highway. I got a ride very fast. It seems to me that the way traffic goes out of Zurich, spots like this one - outside the city and before the highway, rather than on the highway inside the city - would be better (maybe a similar one at Dietikon - haven't tried it, but it would make sense, and the train there is cheaper).
I often use the first spot and it always works very good. Sometimes I already had to change car at "Kilwangen-Spreitenbach". It never was a problem.
August 2019: I was at the spot of option 1 on a sunday at 12:00 and I waited for 1 hour. I got picked up by Germans, who dropped me at the gas station just past the Swiss German border, which wasn't a good spot either (on that sunday). Luckily there is a gas station just before Basel so you can accept rides going there.
→Northwest towards Basel {{European Route Number|60}}, southwest towards Bern {{European Route Number|35}},
=== Northwest towards [[Basel]] {{European Route Number|60}}, southwest towards [[Bern]] {{European Route Number|35}}, ===
1. Take tram 4 to ''Sportweg''. Cross the tram tracks to the opposite platform and walk back about 30m in the direction the tram came to the lay-by on Pfingstweidstrasse. This is a very good hitching spot located before the motorway entrance as cars are not going too fast and drivers can see you from afar and have time to pull into the lay-by. It is also a spot easily accessible from the city center.
2. Another option is to reach a petrol station on the motorway by train and then foot. Take the S12 to ''Kilwangen-Spreitenbach''. The stop is near the service station. One can also use this petrol station to go east and south of '''Zürich''' by using the opposite side to the Bern/Basel exit.
3.Third option is to reach an other petrol station on the motorway by train and then foot.Take the S6 (Direction Baden) and stop at Würenlos or go to the train station Killwangen Spreitenbach (there are both at the same distance more or less). From there you will have to walk to the gas station (C8QX+F3 Würenlos, Suisse) crossing the village and then follow a road leading the station itself (crossing nice fields and a little forest from Würenlos). There is a gate which opens in both direction that gives you access to this big gas station and you can access both sides of the motorway since the stations are connected. Easy rides towards to Lausanne/Geneve and even France.
=== South towards [[Italy]] {{European Route Number|41}}, east towards [[Austria]] ===
