Driving Lessons Preston

You have a genuine choice, which is unusual. Bundoora VicRoads at 8 Graduate Road is about 7.8 kilometres north east and roughly thirteen minutes, and it is the one we would book. Carlton VicRoads at 459 Lygon Street is a near identical distance south and takes closer to twenty minutes. Your driving instructor will confirm which suits you before your drive test is booked.

Time rather than distance. The two are almost exactly the same distance from Preston, but the run north east to Bundoora is around thirteen minutes while the run south to Carlton VicRoads is closer to twenty, because the traffic thickens the nearer the city you get. Seven minutes each way is fourteen minutes of your driving lesson.

If your days are already spent in the city. If you work or study in town, testing at Carlton VicRoads means preparing on roads you drive anyway and getting there is no extra effort on the day. The extra minutes matter less than being on familiar ground, so it is worth saying before you book.

About 7.8 kilometres, or roughly thirteen minutes north east out Plenty Road. It is a straightforward run and the quicker of your two options by a decent margin.

Yes for ordinary learner driving lessons, and pickup from home, work or Preston station is completely normal. For drive test preparation neither office is close enough for that to add up, so we would rather meet you at whichever one you have booked, or run a 90 minute driving lesson.

Away from them, then with them in stages. The first driving lessons stay in the residential grid between High Street and Gilbert Road, where there are no tram tracks at all. When you are ready we bring in one tram road at a time rather than both at once.

Where to stop behind one, that passengers step straight out into the road, and when you may move again. It is one of the parts of the Victorian road rules that people who learned elsewhere find genuinely unfamiliar, and Preston gives you plenty of practice on two different tram roads.

Heavy on the busy days and worth practising deliberately. Parked cars, people crossing and delivery vehicles stopping where they must make the streets around the market a proper lesson in reading ahead. Speeds are low, so it builds observation rather than testing nerve.

Yes, once the basics and the tram work are steady, and they come last. Both are multi-lane and busy through most of the day, so they teach gap selection, lane discipline and turning right across traffic. Plenty Road is the one you take out to Bundoora VicRoads, so it counts twice.

Yes, and from Preston it is the arrangement we would suggest whichever office you choose. The driving lesson runs immediately before the drive test on the roads the testing officers use, so a long drive is not sitting between your preparation and your drive test. It is also the best price we offer.

Usually not the driving. It is the Victorian road rules first, and here that means trams: tram stops, when you may pass and holding a lane beside one. After that it is the multi-lane arterials. We prepare you on the roads around whichever office you have booked.

It is one of the better suburbs in the inner north, and having two offices to choose between is a real advantage. A wide residential grid to start on, a market for observation, two tram roads and two arterials to progress to, all within a couple of kilometres.

The residential grid has ordinary kerbside parking with light traffic, which is where reverse parallel parking should start. Around the market and along High Street is the harder version, with people about and often a tram behind you, and we go there once the quiet streets have stopped needing any thought.