Driving Lessons St Kilda Road

Carlton VicRoads, at 459 Lygon Street, Carlton. It is about 5.2 kilometres north, roughly nineteen minutes, and it is where your driving instructor will prepare you and where your drive test is booked.

No. The VicRoads office on Exhibition Street does not conduct drive tests. It is open and handles other VicRoads business, so it is worth knowing it is there, but from St Kilda Road your drive test is at Carlton VicRoads on Lygon Street.

Because of what is on the road rather than how long it is. Several tram routes, stops in the middle of the carriageway and a set of signals every block all take their turn before you do. The same conditions apply on the roads around the testing office, so the drive north is practice rather than dead time.

On the side streets and over in South Melbourne and Albert Park, a couple of minutes away. We are straightforward about this: the St Kilda Road precinct has very little quiet road, and starting a beginner on a boulevard with four tram routes would not be doing you any favours.

Where to stop behind one, that passengers step straight out into the traffic lane, and when you may move again. On St Kilda Road the stops sit in the middle of the road, which people who learned elsewhere often find genuinely unfamiliar. It is worth doing properly rather than picking up as you go.

Yes for ordinary learner driving lessons, though it is worth agreeing a spot where your driving instructor can genuinely stop, because kerb space along the boulevard is scarce and mostly restricted. For drive test preparation we would rather meet you at Carlton VicRoads or run a 90 minute driving lesson.

It comes last, and it is worth building up to. Several roads and tram routes meet in one place, so lane choice has to be made well before you arrive. Taken in stages it is entirely manageable, and having driven it makes most other intersections feel simple.

They come in before the boulevard and they make a good middle step. Both carry real traffic without the tram routes, so you get multi-lane practice and turns across traffic before adding trams to the picture.

Yes, and from here it is the arrangement we would suggest. The driving lesson runs immediately before the drive test on the roads the testing officers use, so a nineteen minute 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, and here that means trams above everything: multiple routes on one road, centre-of-road stops and knowing when you may pass. Your drive test is at Carlton VicRoads and we prepare you on the roads around it.

It is not where a beginner should start and it is outstanding practice once the basics are steady. Nothing you meet afterwards is busier than a boulevard with several tram routes running down the middle of it. We simply build up to it from the quieter streets nearby.

Mostly not on the boulevard, and that is worth saying honestly, because kerbside space there is scarce and restricted. Reverse parallel parking is practised in South Melbourne and Albert Park, a couple of minutes away, where there are real gaps between real cars.