Practising Downtown When Learning To Drive is Very Beneficial

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Cooper |
July 3, 2024 |
7:51 am |
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In a previous post I suggested adding a few things to the ICBC suggested practise list for New Drivers learning to drive. One of which is DRIVING DOWNTOWN.

Downtown requires a priority of knowing precisely your car’s position at all times, as well as a good solid reading of signs and road markings. Drivers who cannot go slow and who are lazy with their signs and lines reading do not like driving downtown.

Downtown Driving

Downtown driving is crucial. It requires precise control of your car’s position, along with a solid understanding of signs and road markings. Drivers who struggle with slow speeds and reading signs may find downtown driving challenging.

Benefits of Downtown Practice

Downtown driving serves as a proving ground for my clients. Once they have mastered basic movements like left turns at lights, lane changes, parking, and moving with traffic, we tackle downtown driving. This area is congested and busy, with limited space, requiring precise positioning and constant awareness of signs and road markings.

Key Skills for Downtown Driving

  • Sign Awareness: Understanding and obeying signs and road markings is critical.
  • Position Control: Maintaining precise control of your car in tight spaces.
  • Slow Driving: Comfort with driving slowly and navigating short blocks, parked cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and buses.

Downtown driving tests your ability to smoothly combine all driving movements and navigate a more condensed environment.

My clients do not go downtown until they have a solid handle on the following basics…

  • Quiet Area Basics: Hands, feet, eyes, car positioning, and control.
  • Traffic Flow: Merging into and riding along with busy traffic.
  • Turning at Lights: Left and right turns in heavy traffic.
  • Lane Changes: Executing lane changes amidst busy traffic.
  • Parking: Mastering stall and parallel parking.

To prove you have the basics handled we go downtown to show you got all of it and that you can stitch it all together.

DOWNTOWN IS A GREAT PLACE TO PROVE YOU GOT YOUR ACT TOGETHER WHEN LEARNING TO DRIVE

And we rarely see other driving schools. I wonder where they all are? Ha Ha.

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