Test Routes in Gloucester

Graham B · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 09 Dec 2012 Karma :

Morning all,

I have my mod 1 in Swindon on Thursday with Mod 2 in Gloucester the following week.

Can anyone help with the motorbike tests routes in Gloucester.
I have managed to find three online although I think there are another three.

Cheers in advance.

pinkyfloyd · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Karma :

Believe it or not, there is no set test routes any more. The examiners have the set time and in that time they try and get certain criteria met. The best advice is ask what are the junctions around the test centre that can trip the unwary up and practice them. Things like roundabouts that have odd exit lanes etc.

Ultimately though, a road is a road, a junction is a junction.
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Matt B · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 May 2012 Karma :

Are you using an instructor or doing this on your own?

Pinky is right, no set test routes, but examiners do tend to have their favourite spots they like to visit. You instructor (if you have one) should take you to the area for a bit of familiarisation before the mod 2.
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lynnnsr · Nova Slayer Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Karma :

I don't know the test routes in Gloucester because I did mine in South Wales, but I work in Gloucester and the roads and junctions are generally well laid out and fairly standard.

Two worth being aware of beforehand, though:

1. Where the A38, A430 and B4008 meet, very close to the test centre is a (well two, really) massive, American-style, traffic light controlled crossroads. Google maps shows as incomplete but the road now continues to the North. Worth practising this one if you don't know it.

2. Go on Google maps and find Dunelm Mill, Gloucester. This hateful establishment is in the centre of a very strange roundabout-type affair, which I have never come across anywhere else. Rather than give-way lines, to join the roundabout you have to merge right. Traffic will at the same time be merging left towards you to leave the roundabout. Lifesavers.

3. Almost forgot - there is a 'shared space' at the top of Southgate Street/ Commercial Road. 20mph. Pedestrians will wander out in front of you. No road user has priority over the other, so a case of proceed with care.

Good luck!
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DanRLee · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 12 Feb 2015 Karma :

I live in Gloucester and I'm forever seeing instructors following students along the stretch of road from the cross hands round about at the top end of brockworth, down hucclecote road and left onto eastern avenue at the roundabout, and strait all the way over a few more roundabouts up finlay road, lots of little side roads that all route back to these main roads, half a dozen roundabouts, lots of sets of traffic lights and the odd junction, I took both my cbt's in the brockworth area so maybe that's a good place to start?
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