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Yes. At no point ever has number of roads or road space came into the thought process of someone wanting to buy a car. Especially since most people start driving as a teenager or young adult at a time where the choice to become a driver is for completely personal reasons and nothing to do with how many roads exist. Your argument makes zero sense. My choice to learn to drive had nothing to do with what kind of roads had been built and entirely on the fact that I was 17 and just wanted to have a way of getting about without using buses.

And this is the major disconnect between drivers and non-drivers. All the non drivers (on this sub) keep saying we need to sort out public transport and encourage active cycling. I don't care if you made the world's best ever bus service, I won't use it. Ripping up the M8 and closing down roads won't make me give up my car. Ever! You won't ever encourage me to switch to active travel outside of leisure purposes. I don't care if public transport becomes integrated and cheap as fuck while driving becomes really expensive. I want to drive. I will always want to drive. I can't think of any factors that will ever change that. The demand comes from my wanting it.

Yes. Drivers are selfish. We want our own space. We want to go from door to door. You can't change that mindset of the majority of drivers.

The demand for cars comes from people wanting to drive cars. I can't ever imagine a young adult deciding to patch the idea of getting a car and the freedom it brings just because the road network got smaller. I can't ever imagine me or the other dtivers i know giving up driving because the road network got smaller.

"Oh. I won't bother buying a new car because they might shut Kelvin Way and uni ave one day". Aye, right.