Driving Lessons Essendon West

Coolaroo VicRoads, at 12/1530 Pascoe Vale Road, Coolaroo. It is about 13.5 kilometres north of Essendon West, roughly 18 minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

Because it is closer and slower, and the slower part is what you pay for. Carlton VicRoads is about 12.3 kilometres from Essendon West against Coolaroo's 13.5, so it saves you just over a kilometre. It takes around 24 minutes to reach though, against roughly 18 heading north, so it costs about six minutes each way on every driving lesson and again on test day.

About 13.5 kilometres, or roughly 18 minutes in ordinary traffic heading north. That puts Essendon West 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 18 minutes each way the travel takes a solid share of a 60 minute booking.

The residential streets through the middle of the pocket. Because the arterials run around the edges rather than through it, those streets carry local traffic only, which makes them one of the easier places nearby to hold a first driving lesson.

It is a good start and not a whole plan, which is true of any quiet pocket. The streets inside Essendon West give you room to build the basics without pressure. The judgement a drive test assesses comes from the arterials, so we move onto Hoffmans Road and then the busier roads north well before test day rather than staying where it is comfortable.

Yes, once the quiet streets are comfortable. Hoffmans Road runs along the eastern side of Essendon West with steadier traffic and turns that have to be planned rather than taken on sight. It is the natural step up and part of the run towards the office.

Not a problem, and useful. The land falls away towards Steele Creek and the river, so a bit of slope comes into the early driving lessons without anyone having to go looking for it. Starting and stopping on a grade, and parking on one, get sorted early here rather than being met for the first time on test day.

On the residential streets inside the pocket, where cars are parked along the kerb in a normal line and the traffic is local. Once that is solid, doing it on a slight slope is worth practising deliberately, and there is plenty of opportunity nearby.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Essendon West 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 it is the multi-lane arterials this side of the city runs on. From there we plan how many driving lessons you need before the Coolaroo VicRoads drive test.

No. Essendon Fields has a VicRoads office and it does not conduct drive tests, so proximity does not help you here. It is still open for other business. Your drive test is at Coolaroo VicRoads.