Deansgrange driving test routes?

Kellyjbrian

Dun Laoghaire / Deansgrange test centre
Hi all!

I've applied to for my driving test in the test centre on Pottery road. Any idea what the routes will be?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks all

biko

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Kellyjbrian

Route 1 , 30 mins, 11 KM
1. Left out of business park
2. At 2nd set of traffic lights turn rights (baker corner pub)
3. At lights take 1st left into Monkstown Farm
4. At T junction turn left
5. At roundabout take 3rd exit (3 o clock)
6. At T junction turn right (traffic lights)
7. At traffic lights turn left
8. Pass pedestrian lights
9. Pass traffic lights (Dunnes Stores)
10. Take 2nd turn right
11. Do T/A
12. At T junction turn right
13. Take next turn left (just before pedestrian lights)
14. Take next turn left
15. Use 1 or 2nd corner for REV
16. After reverse turn tight
17. Do H/S
18. At T junction turn right
19. At T junction turn left pass pedestrian lights
20. At traffic lights turn left (onto dual carriageway)
21. At 2nd set of traffic lights turn left( church on corner)
22. At 2nd set of traffic lights turn right
23. At traffic lights turn right (Y junction)
24. Turn right into test centre
 
Route 2, 30 mins, 11 KM
1. Turn right out of business park
2. Right at traffic lights
3. Left at traffic lights
4. 2nd turn left
5. Do H/S
6. At T junction turn left (school to the right)
7. At T junction turn left
8. Use 1st corner for REV
9. After reverse turn left
10. At T junction turn right
11. At T junction turn right
12. At T junction turn right (traffic lights)
13. At roundabout take 2nd exit (12 o clock)
14. At mini roundabout take 2nd exit (12 o clock)
15. Take next turn left (just before ramp)
16. Do T/A
17. At T junction turn right
18. At mini roundabout take 1st exit (12 o clock)
19. Take next turn left
20. Option for reverse on left
21. At t junction turn right
22. At T junction turn left
23. At roundabout take 3rd exit (3 o clock)
24. At roundabout take 1st exit
25. At T junction turn left
26. At traffic lights turn right
27. At traffic lights turn right
28. Turn left into test centre

Route 3, 30 mins, 11km
Take a left out onto Pottery Road.
Take the right slip lane to turn right at Bakers Corner Pub onto Kill Avenue.
Wait for filter light or no oncoming traffic and turn right and go down past IADT
At the fire station take a left into Ashgrove.
Continue straight ( don't take immediate left) then take the next left (past industrial units)to bring you up to Birchgrove. (you're now facing back out at IADT entrance and the church)
Take a left onto the main road and take a right into Ardmore Park. Somewhere in these estates you do the turnabout and hillstart (very mild hill)
Exit Ardmore Park left and head back up towards bakers corner on Kill avenue
Take a left to go up past the petrol station and past the National rehabilitation hospital.( Rochestown avenue)
Past Dunne Motors and left onto Sallynoggin road. At the cafe take a right onto Pearse st past Aldi
Right into Pearse park, follow the road around to Pearse Close (careful of Park road to the left merging onto the road - you have right of way but best to slow right down
through the little estates avoiding cars and back down to Sallynoggin college.
take a left onto Pearse st, left to Pearse villas, right onto Rochestown Park, right onto Rochester Avenue, past circle k garage, left slip road onto Johnstown road, into Granitefield for reverse around the corner. Mine was uphill and the path dipped a little out of view to accommodate a lowered footpath, back out onto Johnstown road then right onto pottery road and back to the test centre

ahlookit

coming out from test centre watch for 15km speed limit on road
right onto pottery road
left onto johnstown road
right onto rochestown avenue
left onto rochestown park
left onto pearse villas
right onto pearse st, follow road around til you hit the lights at sallynoggin road
slight left at the lights to o rourke park
3rd exit at the small roundabout and follow road round til you hit sallynoggin road
left onto sallynoggin road
3rd exit at roundabout onto glenageary road
3rd exit at roundabout onto killiney road
right onto ballinclea road
right onto cluny grove
turanbout in cul de sac off cluny grove (think i was supposed to do reverse around the corner there, but there was another car doing it at the same time)
back onto ballinclea road
2nd exit at graduate roundabout back onto rochestown ave
left into granitefield
left again to woodlands road
reverse around corner back into auburn road (just past little row of shops)
right out through granitefield
left onto johnstown road
right onto pottery road
left into test centre, watching for 15 km speed sign again

woodie

Hi my son is doing his test in deansgrange in a few weeks so I’m looking for the routes if anyone can help that would be great thanks

Liamoc05

the site driveflow has all the most recent up to date routes for dun laoghaire posted

cml387

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151330#Comment_124151330

Trying to flog yourwebsite eh? Tut tut.

BlakeS94

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151330#Comment_124151330

Are you only here for the plug? It'd be considerate of you to mention you're the owner of this website. Instead of giving a bias opinion which isn't genuine.

If someone else comes along and says hey I found this website it's good for what you're looking for, fair enough.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151330#Comment_124151330

Don't you mean to say 'my site driveflow..'

You literally mention it being your site here:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124084708#Comment_124084708

OP, that website is very expensive for what's on offer. There's a paid for app on the Play store (I am not affiliated!) called Irish Driving Test Routes that has all the routes for a fraction of the cost. No paying through your nose to unlock specific routes. They're all included.

It is a subscription though, so make sure to cancel the subscription (I think it's about 3-4 euro) after the month.

I downloaded it the month of my test, paided the 3 or 4 euro or whatever it was, practiced my test centre routes every night using the app and passed first try. Then unsubscribed from the app immediately.

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151774#Comment_124151774

Yes sorry, I am the owner however I struggle to see how it makes a difference. I'm not forcing to buy, simply just saying heres a site that could help you out.

I will say it's mine in future

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124151792#Comment_124151792

Ehhh I've never seen this, every other site offers 15 euro a month that I've seen. Could you link the app please?

Liamoc05

Okay thanks will do.

...Ghost...

I've used driveflow for a Dublin test centre and while it's not perfect, it's quite handy to familiarise yourself with the routes. I offered to try it out for the owner, so I didn't pay for it. It's a point a-b-c-d etc google maps thing which was useful. I personally think it would be best opened up on all the routes and for a shorter period of time, making it easier on the owner and the customer. My Daughter used it a few times on the route I requested and thankfully she passed her test.

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124159451#Comment_124159451

Hi Ghost, I was curious to see how you found it. You say it's not perfect and I am fully aware of this but could you tell me some specifics that could be improved upon. I really hate that because I want users to have the best tracking software (google maps), the price I have to pay is the points.

I know what your saying about the first route being free and your definitely right about it but there's just something about spending hundreds of hours with a team putting it together then giving it for free.

Liamoc05

Also congratulations to your daughter, glad she was able use driveflow to help even in the slightest. I love to hear that I'm helping people even a tiny tiny amount.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124177559#Comment_124177559

Sure. You've asked on thread, so i'll lay it out here for everyone to see. For the sake of ease, i'm just going to call it an APP rather than a site with pre-determined google map drive points, even though it's not an APP and probably should be APP based.

For anyone reading, with driveflow.ie, you purchase access to a test centre and there are a few different test routes available. My local centre has 5 possible routes and is consistently the centre with the highest fail rate. The driveflow APP lets you pick a route and prompts you to go to Google Maps with a point to point driving route, with planned stops along the way. So you drive from point A and then to B and C and so on. There are usually about 5 points to drive to.

So, the account access was provided as a thank you for suggestions made on another thread. It was only used for 4 journeys before the test at the local centre and it was helpful if for nothing else, to get my Daughter out practicing in the test area. My Son was in the car for the first 2 and he said the problem he had was on the longer stretches between points, the google maps would pop up with alternative route suggestions. This could be fixed if more stopping points were available. I didn't have this problem when I went out the following day.

The problem I had was that it is only a route planner and not a proper testing aid. It helps you familiarise yourself with the route. I think that is really helpful, but I also think it needs more. For the price paid (which is low in fairness), if I were in charge, I would just open up all the test centre routes for the customer for a limited time, or monthly sub. This would simplify the purchase for both parties.

The concern of account sharing is not worth the obstacle of limiting the test centre choice on purchase. Customers might accept a test at another centre at short notice and this is where the service is really needed, but is hindered by limiting the purchaser to one centre. You won't have many people sharing their credentials for such a cheap service and any that do are only spreading the name of your service, which is cheap marketing for the owner and worth every cent.

What I would like to see is a service that not only covers the routes, but tracks the speed, brings the driver to the hill start locations and the turn about locations and those things they will experience on a test. Voice prompts for the next turn etc would be really useful, as the examiner also gives directions verbally. I don't know how practical those things are, but it should be possible in an APP. If not voice prompts, then a text prompt that the companion licensed driver could read out, acting as the examiner.

If you must stick to google maps in the current form, you should atleast include the hillstart and turnabout locations for each route. This could be achieved by linear links. So, the driver chooses route option "C" and instead of going directly to the google maps, they are brought to a web page which shows the location of the hillstart and turnabout locations. A link on that page then brings the driver to the google map. I hope that's useful.

My Brother will be doing his test in March. He is open to other test centres, but your service limits us to using only one centre unless more money is paid, which devalues the service because he would have been practicing on routes for one centre and may have to pay extra for a different test centre. It's a real limiting factor and imo, will hurt sales. I would market the service as one that gives drivers access to all test centre routes.

Hotblack Desiato

I'm mystified why threads like this exist - the obvious answer is ask your instructor.

If you're not taking lessons at least once a week, you're not serious about passing the test.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124178228#Comment_124178228

There could be any number of reasons why threads like this exist.

This one specifically could be here because the OP is socially anxious and is unable to ask their instructor for help. The new account registration might point to this.

The OP might not have an instructor and might have completed their lessons months ago in a different location.

They might have asked their instructor and received no reply, or an unclear reply.

People come here for help for all sorts of reasons where there might appear to be an obvious answer, but there is a reason why they have come here. We can either choose to join the conversation and help, or not.

Some might be mystified as to why some people feel it necessary to say they are mystified by some threads.

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124178172#Comment_124178172

Thanks so much for this response.

1 - all the other apps i've seen in ireland have horrible reviews due to their 'poor tracking and 'glitchy ui' so I decided on google maps for the best possible tracking as I myslef couldn't even come close to making half the tracking system they have already

2 - I will be setting up a system whereby upon test centre change for a cancellation or whatever other reason they can send me an email (later I will add it so that it could be a click of a button but with maybe x changes max so it doesnt get abused)

3 - Love the idea of the hill start and turnabout on another page but I don't know how practical it would be to bring them to yet another page. I will definitely try this out as currently it is the biggest flaw of the site.

4 - what you said about your son bringing out your daughter and it recommending other routes, there is only one fix to this and thats adding more nodes. With more nodes comes more 'next step' clicks which I was trying to reduce as they can lead to some confusion. HOWEVER I could add this for yourself and others and see how it works.

I would love to give you access to any test route you need and I will add more nodes to see how it works out.

Thanks so much for all this feedback it helps me out so much. All the best.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124179094#Comment_124179094

1. You should be apble to use Google Maps API to use as a base for the driving instructions. Google allow this as long as it;s not getting re-branded and is for educational use.
2. Don't do the email thing. Either it's immediately available, or not. Nobody wants to wait for an email response/change if they have a test cancellation for the following day(s). Once again, you're adding unnecessary work for yourself.
3. Many test routes will overlap for hill starts and turnabout locations. Adding another page with this info will be easy and will not detract from the user experience. Better to have this built into the navigation with instructions, but an easy, cheap method is what I suggested.
4. Ideally, nodes would trigger next step instructions, but in any case, better to have them rather than rerouting on the test route.

Keep my account open and i'll request different centres if appropriate. Most likely it will be the same one unless my Brother takes a cancellation somewhere else in Dublin. If you can unlock access to all Dublin and Meath centres, that would be great, as these are the ones he might take a test in.

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124179667#Comment_124179667

Okay perfect, and if you could let me know the test he decides on or gets a cancellation for I would like to put in one with fewer nodes and one with many more nodes to remove that problem you were having.

Thanks for everything.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124178806#Comment_124178806

This one specifically could be here because the OP is socially anxious and is unable to ask their instructor for help.

ffs

The OP might not have an instructor and might have completed their lessons months ago in a different location.

Completed their lessons? This is a BS mentality, the idea that one knows it all despite not having passed one's test yet. Anyone serious about passing their test needs to keep taking regular lessons. No wonder the failure rate is so ridiculously high.

If their instructor is crap or they don't get on with their instructor, there are plenty of other ones.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124180345#Comment_124180345

Have a cup of tea and relax. Not everyone has all the answers.

Hotblack Desiato

Useless post.

People who are serious about passing the driving test put the effort in.

quenching

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124179094#Comment_124179094

The rerouting while on a test route is very frustrating. I tried it with my son a few days ago and we gave up half way through as it was difficult to determine what the actual test route was, Tallaght Route 6. It also really needs voice prompts.

I'll try it again this week as maybe it's just a lack of familiarity with the "app" but I'd agree with Ghost and add more nodes so the test route stays "fixed' and doesn't offer alternative directions.

Allinall

test routes should be changed at random, if the test is to have any credibility.

You don't see people looking for leaving certificate questions in advance.

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124186750#Comment_124186750

What? Did you even do a leaving cert? There are mock exams that go back 20 years and there's usually only a certain amount of questions that can be asked. So you pick a few and memorise them. Exactly like the test routes for your driving test.

J_R

Regarding practicing test routes, as a retired driving instructor may I input my 2 cents..

I never taught my pupils how to navigate over set routes. Instead .I taught them how to drive to a standard that they could safely and competently deal with any junction either in the test or later in their lifetime of everyday driving. .

I did of course go over any non-standard junctions. Explain possible hidden dangers etc but to just endlessly bring them over the exact routes – never

When I hear of an instructor teaching the test routes I immediately think of a circus ringmaster training little doggies to run around a ring performing tricks, jumping through hoops etc.

quenching

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124186736#Comment_124186736

Tried again yesterday and the constant rerouting makes it very tricky to figure out the actual test route while driving. This definitely needs more nodes for busy areas, might be fine for routes with less traffic but for Tallaght it's nearly impossible to use.

J_R

I think this thread it is a sad reflection on the teaching standards of driving instructors.

Reading it, it appears that the instructors are unable to instill in their pupils sufficient confidence to sit the driving test without knowing the exact routes. And endlessly practise those same routes.

A properly trained learner know they are good and should be quietly confident they can handle any normal driving situation.

The test is easy, just necessary to give the nice government man a safe drive around town.

There is a saying "A poor workman blames his tools", poor instructors blame the severity of the test, the harshness of the examiners.

In reality the examiners are basically nice guys, they will pass if they can, however they will and must fail if they consider the driver is a danger to themselves or others.

Liamoc05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124186736#Comment_124186736

Yeah I've found this really annoying but I am currently working on it for all test routes. As when I was putting them in at the start I assumed that the less nodes was better but obviously not.