Devine Rule of Thumb Over As Hitch-Hikers Become a Rare Sight On Our Roads ; Whether You Were Heading to Paris or Portmeirion, Thumbing a Lift Was Once the Preferred Way of Getting There for a Generation of Carefree Travellers and Students. Darren Devine Looks Back at the Largely Forgotten Art of Hitch-Hiking

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LIKE perms and flares, hitching a lift defined '70s Britain as much as strikes, power cuts and Ford Cortinas.

But now the hitch-hiker is an endangered species on Britain's roads, killed off by increased wealth, the two and three-car family and a culture that's lost its ability to keep risk in perspective.

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Devine Rule of Thumb Over As Hitch-Hikers Become a Rare Sight On Our Roads ; Whether You Were Heading to Paris or Portmeirion, Thumbing a Lift Was Once the Preferred Way of Getting There for a Generation of Carefree Travellers and Students. Darren Devine Looks Back at the Largely Forgotten Art of Hitch-Hiking

And for many, the reasons so few of us now thumb a lift run deeper than the simple expansion in car ownership and a safety- obsessed culture: hitching was one of the last vestiges of the war spirit, a sort of neighbourliness on the road...

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