Driving Lessons Lower Plenty

Bundoora VicRoads, at 8 Graduate Road, Bundoora. It is about 10.7 kilometres north west of Lower Plenty, roughly 18 minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

About 10.7 kilometres, or roughly 18 minutes in ordinary traffic heading north west. The climb out of the river valleys is part of that, so allow the full figure rather than assuming a flat run.

Yes, for ordinary driving lessons. For drive test preparation we would suggest meeting at Bundoora VicRoads instead, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, because at 18 minutes each way the travel takes better than half of a 60 minute booking.

They ask a great deal early and it pays off. The suburb sits between two rivers with steep streets throughout, so pulling away on a grade, controlling speed downhill and parking on a slant all come in the first few driving lessons rather than being put off. By the time you reach the flat roads near the office it is settled.

The residential streets off Main Road. Quiet, leafy and with very little through traffic, which gives a beginner time to work while the gradients do their teaching.

Because the suburb has no multi-lane road of its own. Two rivers and steep ground mean almost nothing passes through, which is lovely to learn car control in and no preparation at all for the traffic the drive test is conducted in. So the later driving lessons head out towards Rosanna and the roads near the office.

It is the busiest road in Lower Plenty and the natural step up. It runs through the village strip with kerbside parking and turning traffic, on a road that bends and rises at the same time, so turns have to be set up before the corner rather than partway through it.

It is an excellent place to learn car control and a poor place to learn traffic, and a sensible plan uses it for the first and goes elsewhere for the second. Learners from here tend to be very smooth on hills and bends, and they need deliberate practice in busy traffic before test day.

On the flatter stretches first, then on a slope deliberately, because level parking is genuinely rare here. Parking on a grade is worth being confident about long before test day rather than meeting it for the first time on it.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Lower Plenty are in a small dual-control automatic, and that is also the car you would sit the Bundoora 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 Bundoora 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.

Plan on 3 to 5 driving lessons if you drive here only occasionally, 2 to 3 if you already drive regularly in Melbourne, or 5 to 10 or more if Victorian road rules are still new to you. Those are our recommended ranges, not fixed minimums. The gap is rarely car control. It is Victorian road rules, and around here it is steep winding streets first and busy roads later. That is what your driving lessons focus on before the Bundoora VicRoads drive test.