| Comment | Utrecht has motorways around three sides of the city. Here's one of them, almost as wide as the M8/M74 at Plantation:
[https://goo.gl/maps/hoBnFfVCgFyDGP6w5](https://goo.gl/maps/hoBnFfVCgFyDGP6w5)
So it's not that it's some car-free idyll where everybody bikes or paddles around.
Glasgow was intended to get two more ring roads, both further out from the city centre. The outermost would have run from Robroyston round to near the Erskine Bridge, giving long-distance traffic the option to avoid the city entirely.
Only bits of them were built and other roads links are still poor, so lots of traffic gets funnelled through the M8 that in an ideal world shouldn't be anywhere near it.
You'd need a massive improvement in public transport provision, and better road links elsewhere, before you could think about downgrading the M8. |
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