Driving Lessons Fitzroy North

Carlton VicRoads, at 459 Lygon Street, Carlton. It is about 3.1 kilometres south west of Fitzroy North, roughly nine minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

About 3.1 kilometres, or roughly nine minutes in ordinary traffic. That puts Fitzroy North just inside the ten minute mark, so travel is not really an issue for ordinary driving lessons.

Yes. Home, work or your local station all work, and at nine minutes from the office the travel is manageable either way. For drive test preparation we would still suggest meeting at Carlton VicRoads, because nine minutes each way is still close to twenty minutes of the hour.

It is the most useful road in Fitzroy North to be taught on. St Georges Road is a wide boulevard with the tram running down a central reservation, so turning across it means reading the tram, the oncoming traffic and the signals together. Once you have been shown how to set that turn up early it stops being complicated, and it is exactly the sort of thing the drive test looks at.

The residential streets around Edinburgh Gardens, including Scotchmer Street, Rae Street and the blocks between them. Quieter and slightly wider than the streets further south, with proper intersections rather than constant give way decisions.

For the first few driving lessons, yes, and that is about the streets rather than the suburb. The busy roads in Fitzroy North sit on the edges, so the residential grid in the middle stays calm. That gives a beginner somewhere to build the basics before taking on the boulevards, which is a slightly gentler order than you get closer to the city.

Yes, once the quiet streets are comfortable. Queens Parade runs through the shops with kerbside parking and turning traffic, so it is the natural step up from the residential grid before St Georges Road and Nicholson Street.

Yes. The streets around Edinburgh Gardens are a common meeting point for driving lessons in Fitzroy North, along with home and work. For drive test preparation we would still suggest Carlton VicRoads instead.

On the residential streets near Edinburgh Gardens, where there are real gaps between parked cars and enough room to take your time. Once that is solid, the tighter parking along Queens Parade is the harder version and worth doing before test day.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Fitzroy North are in a small dual-control automatic, and that is also the car you would sit the Carlton 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 Carlton 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 running down the middle of the road rather than beside it. From there we plan how many driving lessons you need before the Carlton VicRoads drive test.