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I had taken lessons for about 6 months and had one lesson per week and not long before I stopped it was £28 per hour so about 45 minutes actual driving. I was then told it takes about a year to learn to drive so I had 6 months to go but might be ready for my test in 4 months so of course my brain kicks in and I immediately think I'm being tricked in some way and taken advantage of and a few other things happened and that stopped. I believe it was the right thing to do and then with the way the city centre is now and it's all one way streets and they're trying to stop people driving in there altogether and just keep it to buses and taxis I just don't know if it's worth trying to get back into driving lessons again. I'm also thinking of where do you go? Glasgow is not that big, you've got maybe 7 to 10 miles in each direction of the city centre before you cross into the next Council boundary. It would be a lot of money to just drive around in the same 7 mile circuit. The only option would be to go for a drive outside Glasgow and even that's becoming a hassle now and people aren't meant to leave their cities.


With the prices of lessons and the time it takes to pass your test, I thought age might have played into it but they told me they would say the same thing to an 18 year old, this is gonna take a year of your life unless you've got a family member or friend who can let you drive everyday and you're driving all the time outside of your lessons. I can see Glasgow becoming really difficult for people to get around. Then there's the cost of public transport. For such a small city it just seems so expensive to learn to drive, then buy a car then tax it and insure it or pay money for busfares and train fares every monht. I know a lot of people use bikes now but I can't get over seeing adults riding bicycles on the pavements. These are grown men and women and they're too scared to pedal on the roads. It's like everyone is crammed together and no one seems to be getting anywhere any quicker whether they're driving, pedaling a bike or on a bus that....let's be honest that's another con. 15 miles an hour, half an hour to drive 6 miles. It's a joke, buses stuttering along the road, the drivers deliberately stopping at every stopping, deliberately slowing down to every red light, it's like a fear, they're scared to drive properly. That's when I do notice the difference with a car. 5 minutes across the motorway into town, you could make a trip into town, go to Argyle Street and be back home well within half an hour and you'd be lucky to get a bus from Silverburn to Hope Street in that time. A strange strange thing.


I don't know what's happened to Glasgow.