Toulouse

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Toulouse is a city in the South West of France.

Several motorways meet at Toulouse so it's a great place to change routes if your driver is no longer going the same way as you. Toulouse's bypass is complicated, so try to change vehicles at a péage when entering the motorway. If you change at the exit péage before entering the Toulouse bypass a lot of passing traffic won't be going the same way as you.

Hitching out

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North towards Bordeaux, Agen, Limoges, Paris E 9 E 72 A62

To get to the large péage where all the traffic in this direction must stop, take the metro line B, get off at the stop "La vache" then get the bus 60 or 69 and get off at "Laparrou". Near to this bus stop there is the small dead-end street "Impasse des Horticulteurs", at the end of which you can see the peage behind the tall metal fence and there is a rail gate on the right hand side. Just beside the gate, you will see a net fence has been tramped down. Go through it and climb to the top of the mound and jump over another net fence, you then can walk down the slope and along the edge lane to the peage directly.

Second opinion : you can walk to the entrance of the "périphérique" (ring road) at Pont Jumeaux as well (10mns walk from metro Canal du Midi), there are 2 traffic lights there. Easy to go there (plus standing at the péage might be forbidden), nice spot, but took me like 1 hour to get a ride, both times.

Northeast, towards Albi A68

Take metro line B to stop Borderouge, then change bus 40 or 73 or walk to stop Atlanta. Just walk along the Route d'Albi to the road sign post before the road splits to ramp onto A62 and hitch with a sign. The passing traffic goes to Albi via D888 or A68.

The Péage towards the South-East

First, take metro line B in the direction Ramonville to the very last stop. Then you can get to the péage :

  • on foot, is about 30 minutes walking (3km). Turn left at the traffic circle just out the metro station. Follow the autoroute/Montpellier signs until the entrance of the motorway (you should find cardboard there) the péage is only 2km further.
  • by bus, get directly in the 79 (PDF with the route and the timetables of the bus 79) Get off at the bus stop Commerce. At the traffic circle in front of you, turn right and cross a fast road (not the motorway though) then get on a bridge above a canal. There is a gate at the end of the bridge you might have to climb but so far, it was open. You can see the small bridge on the map. Phlyming found the gate too high to climb over for normal people and it was easier to directly walk along the edge lane onto the interchange bridge in the north, follow the direction to A61 and get to péage.

Towards Carcassonne, Montpellier, Barcelona (Spain)

Most of the cars are going this way, you should get a ride in a few minutes.

Towards Foix, Andorra

A few kilometers after the péage the motorway splits, with most traffic going on to Montpellier and no way to drop you. Therefore a sign reading direction Foix is essential.
If the driver is not going all the way to Foix or Andorra, he might be able to drop you off at the péage Pamiers, from which one can easily continue on.

Towards Tarbes, Pau, Bayonne on highway A64

It's one of the options, I guess there can be also others. At edge of city, exactly in half-an-hour or bit more walking distance from the center along the street Route de Seysses. It will cross with the street Av du General Eisenhower. You can check the bus stop maps on the way not to get lost. Standing with sign A64 might help. Check also a map: [1]

Public transport

Even though it's hard to get in the metro without ticket, is good to know that tickets are valid during 1 hour after the first punch. That means trash bins are full of valid tickets ;)


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