We often see hitchhikers（搭便车的人）, standing by the side of the road, thumb sticking out, waiting for a lift. But it is getting

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　　nowadays. What killed hitchhiking?

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　　is often mentioned as a reason. Movies about murderous hitchhikers and real-life crime

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　　many drivers off picking up hitchhikers.

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　　no single women picked me up on my journey to Manchester

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　　reflects the safety fear

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　　, strangely dressed man is seen as dangerous.

　　But the reason may be

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　　complex hitchhiking happens where people don’t have cars and transport services are

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　　. Plenty of people

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　　hitchhike in Poland and Romania. Perhaps the rising level of car ownership in the UK means the few people lift hitchhiking are usually considered strange. Why can’t they

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　　cars? Why can’t they take the coach or the train?

　　Three-quarters of the UK population have

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　　a car; many of the

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　　will be quite old. The potential hitchhiking population is therefore small.

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　　my trip proves it’s still possible to hitchhike. The people who picked me up were very interesting lawyer, retired surgeon, tank commander, carpenter, man who live in an isolated farmhouse and a couple

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