Learning to Drive in Balmain
As one of Sydney's oldest suburbs and a peninsular on Sydney Harbour, just 6km from Sydney's CBD, Balmain is one Sydney's most desirable suburbs to live. It is however, one of Sydneys most challenging to navigate for resident learner drivers and their families. As it's streetscapes were mostly laid out at a time when horse and cart galloped up and down the peninsular, it is home to some of Sydney's narrowest roads and some of Sydney's bravest drivers.
Balmain Driving Lessons
Early stage learner drivers in Balmain
Needless to say Balmain is not an appropriate location for any early stage learner driver to get behind the wheel, wether it's with family or a professional driving instructor. However, thankfully there are an abundance of areas very close by that are very suitable and even some of the Inner Wests best areas for early stage learner drivers. For example, Haberfield and Five dock are both approximately a 10-15min drive away and have some ideal pockets of quiet, spacious streets for early stage learners to explore whilst acquainting themselves with controlling their vehicle. Annandale & Leichhardt are much less than ideal, however they too have some appropriate pockets of quite streets, albeit much small pockets.
Intermediate & experienced learner drivers in Balmain
Intermediate and experienced learner drivers will find negotiating Balmain's narrow streets and sometimes non existing buffers (between parked and oncoming vehicles) very challenging, however with the right supervision and guidance they will adapt and eventually become confident driving in and out of their home suburb. Being an Inner West suburb, once learners have driven out of Balmain, there is a plethora of different traffic conditions to explore and learn on within close proximity.
Driving Instructors Balmain
One of the benefits of learning to drive with a professional driving instructor is to benefit from their local knowledge of suitable areas to take you driving for any stage you are up to. In particular for early stage or first time learners, your driving instructor will take you to an existing, predetermined pocket of roads, that they know has suitable conditions for you There you will be able to focus predominately on foundation skills including steering, positioning, scanning etc... without the risks of a busier area and/or tighter streets.
Balmain Driving Test Preparation
Marrickville NSW Services centre is undoubtably the most conveniently located testing centre for Balmain residents. It is located inside the the Marrickville Metro shopping centre, located at 34 Victoria Rd. It too hosts some of Sydney’s narrowest roads, but by this point if you’ve survived learning to drive in Balmain, this won’t trouble you at all.