Driving Lessons Essendon North

Coolaroo VicRoads, at 12/1530 Pascoe Vale Road, Coolaroo. It is about 13.1 kilometres north of Essendon North, roughly 15 minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

We would not suggest it, and the margin is smaller than most people assume. Carlton VicRoads is about 12.3 kilometres from Essendon North against Coolaroo's 13.1, so it is nearer by less than a kilometre. The run into the city takes roughly 20 minutes where Coolaroo is about 15, so the closer office costs you around five minutes each way for a distance you would never notice.

About 13.1 kilometres, or roughly 15 minutes in ordinary traffic heading north. That puts Essendon North outside the ten minute mark, which is what shapes our advice on where a driving lesson should start.

Yes, for ordinary driving lessons. Home, work or your local station all work. For drive test preparation we would suggest meeting at Coolaroo VicRoads instead, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, because at 15 minutes each way the travel takes a solid share of a 60 minute booking.

The residential streets inside the grid, around Renown Street, Salisbury Street and the blocks near Woodland Street. They are quiet and gridded with intersections that give you time, which is what a first driving lesson needs.

Yes, once the quiet streets are comfortable. Keilor Road runs through the shopping strip, so it brings kerbside parking, cars pulling out without much warning and pedestrians crossing between them. It is the natural step up from the residential grid and well worth doing properly.

They are part of learning to drive here rather than something to work around. Mount Alexander Road is multi-lane with trams, so it asks for lane discipline and turns planned early. Your driving instructor takes you through tram rules and where to position the car before you meet them in traffic, and there is nothing mysterious about it once you have.

They are separate suburbs, and for driving lessons the practical difference is which roads are on your doorstep. Essendon North sits on the Keilor Road side next to the airport estate, so Keilor Road and Mount Alexander Road are the arterials you will be taught on. Both suburbs test at the same office.

On the residential streets inside the grid, where cars are parked along the kerb in a normal line. Real gaps on a real street are what the drive test asks you to judge. Once that is solid, the Keilor Road shopping strip is the harder version and worth doing before test day.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Essendon North are in a small dual-control automatic, and that is also the car you would sit the Coolaroo VicRoads drive test in if your package includes it. An automatic licence covers you for automatic cars, which is what most people in Melbourne drive now. If you specifically need manual, tell us when you book and we will give you an honest answer on whether we can cover it.

The same as everywhere else we teach. A 60 minute driving lesson booked as a package of three works out at $225, and packages that include the Coolaroo VicRoads drive test start at $224. The full list is further down this page. The price does not change for weekends, public holidays, early mornings or evenings, which is worth checking when you compare quotes.

With one driving lesson so your driving instructor can see where you are. Experienced overseas drivers usually need fewer driving lessons than they expect, and the gap is rarely car control. It is Victorian road rules, and around here it is trams and turning across multi-lane traffic. From there we plan how many driving lessons you need before the Coolaroo VicRoads drive test.

No. Essendon Fields is the closest VicRoads office to Essendon North and it does not conduct drive tests. It remains open for other business, so it has not closed down, but drive tests happen at Coolaroo VicRoads. It is an easy assumption to make when the office is on your doorstep.