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== Hitching in and around ==
Bucharest has a ring road completely surrounding the city, which means that hitchhikers can accept a lift to Bucharest and then go further without having to enter the city center and then hitch out again. However, hitching from the ring road in some places can be very difficult, Especially in the north near Otopeni and highway motorway 1 where they are constructing a new road and it is a very bad area full of prostitutes, stray dogs, gypsies and really no good places for cars to stop. In such cases it is better to just hitch into town and avoid the ring road. Then take a metro or a bus to the side of Bucharest you need to exit from.
Southbound travelers headed for [[Istanbul]] might want to stop at a truck rest stop [http://maps.google.com/?q=bucuresti&ie=UTF8&ll=44.435718,25.964658&spn=0.002896,0.006191&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr close to where the E70 takes a right turn], where one can possibly find a lift straight there.
Take a tram to Nicoloe Grig.. and continue on the tram to the end of the RATB line and walk to the A2 beginning. Make real sure that the tram is going the correct direction. Jass made a great mess of this last time. It should be a tram going to the left as you exit the station. If you can find someone, ask for the tram that goes to the A2 as nonsensical as it may seem or Besatu (Resalka) (words written in an old notebook...may or may not be reliable). Walk on out for for another ten minutes or so until a roundabout. Here seems to be a good place to get rides, even if there's little traffic. Jass got a ride to Constanţa within fifteen minutes in June 2010.
Now you can take the subway to a perfect stop for Constanta. Just stop at station Anghel Saligny and there you have it, you don't have to change for the tram anymore. There you have a gas station and also a perfect road for the highway motorway A2.
== Public transport ==