Driving Lessons Kew

Carlton VicRoads, at 459 Lygon Street, Carlton. It is about 8.3 kilometres west of Kew, roughly 14 minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

No. The office on Exhibition Street does not conduct drive tests. It remains open for other VicRoads business, so it is useful to know it is there, but drive tests from Kew are at Carlton VicRoads on Lygon Street.

About 8.3 kilometres, or roughly 14 minutes in ordinary traffic heading west towards the city. Where you start in Kew moves that a little, so treat it as a guide.

Yes, for ordinary driving lessons. Home, work or the Junction all work. For drive test preparation we would suggest meeting at Carlton VicRoads instead, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, because the return trip takes about half of a 60 minute booking.

It is the most demanding piece of driving in the suburb and the most worthwhile. Several roads meet at once with trams, turning lanes and a great deal to read in a short space. There is nothing mysterious about it once it has been explained and driven a few times, and the judgement it builds is exactly what the drive test assesses.

The residential streets back from the Junction, particularly up towards Studley Park where the blocks are generous and the traffic is local. The slope means gradient control comes in early without anyone going looking for a hill.

They are useful. Kew sits inside a bend of the river with the ground dropping away on two sides, so starting on a grade, holding speed downhill and parking on a slope all arrive in the first few driving lessons rather than being put off.

Yes, once the Junction is comfortable. Both carry a great deal of traffic across the inner east and ask for firm lane discipline and turns set up well ahead. They are the closest local match to the roads around Carlton VicRoads.

It is the natural step between the quiet streets and the Junction. Cotham Road runs through the shops with kerbside parking and steady traffic, busy enough to be useful and slow enough to think in.

On the residential streets back from the shops, and deliberately on a slope, because level parking is not the norm here. The kerbside parking along Cotham Road is the busier version and worth doing before test day.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Kew 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 a complicated junction and roads that fall away to the river. From there we plan how many driving lessons you need before the Carlton VicRoads drive test.