Ryde Service Centre, New South Wales (NSW) Driving Test Routes

Practice your Ryde road test route

Real routes used for the Ryde Service NSW Service Centre (Macquarie Shopping Centre, Level 0, Shop UC 5/6) at corner of Herring Road and Waterloo Road, delivered as a Google Maps GPS navigation file with turn-by-turn instructions included. No app, no account, no subscription.

Ryde Service NSW Service Centre details

Location: Macquarie Shopping Centre, Level 0, Shop UC 5/6, corner of Herring Road and Waterloo Road, North Ryde NSW 2113
Phone: 13 77 88
Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am to 5:30pm. Saturday: 8:30am to 12:30pm. Closed Sunday. Book a driver or rider licence test online through Service NSW or by calling 13 77 88.
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Other Service NSW locations near Ryde

If your appointment ends up at a different nearby location, here's how far each one actually is to drive from this location:

• North Rocks Service NSW service centre: 10.67 km, about 14 minutes
• Chatswood Service NSW service centre: 11.10 km, about 16 minutes
• North Sydney Service NSW service centre: 15.30 km, about 18 minutes

This driving test route runs 20.39 km and takes about 40 minutes:

1. Drive northeast, 0.17 km.
2. Turn left onto Talavera Road, 0.15 km.
3. Bear left onto Herring Road, 1.02 km.
4. Turn right onto Epping Road, 0.60 km.
5. Turn left onto Balaclava Road, 0.88 km.
6. Enter the roundabout and take the 1st exit onto Abuklea Road, 0.20 km.
7. Turn right onto Longview Street, 0.23 km.
8. Drive southwest on Longview Street, 0.10 km.
9. Turn right onto North Road, 0.33 km.
10. Turn left onto Balaclava Road, 0.89 km.
11. Turn right onto Blaxland Road, 1.06 km.
12. Turn right onto Maida Road, 0.24 km.
13. Turn left onto Essex Street, 0.20 km.
14. Drive north on Essex Street, 0.19 km.
15. Turn right onto Epping Road, 3.08 km.
16. Turn right onto Herring Road, 0.28 km.
17. Enter the roundabout and take the 2nd exit onto Herring Road, 0.12 km.
18. Drive southwest on Herring Road, 0.26 km.
19. Enter the roundabout and take the 2nd exit onto Herring Road, 0.22 km.
20. Enter the roundabout and take the 1st exit onto Herring Road, 0.39 km.
21. Enter the roundabout and take the 2nd exit onto Abuklea Road, 0.34 km.
22. Drive north on Abuklea Road, 0.71 km.
23. Enter the roundabout and take the 1st exit onto Balaclava Road, 1.53 km.
24. Turn right onto Blaxland Road, 0.35 km.
25. Drive west on Blaxland Road.
26. Turn right to stay on Blaxland Road, 0.71 km.
27. Turn right onto Maida Road, 0.24 km.
28. Turn left onto Essex Street, 0.39 km.
29. Turn right onto Epping Road, 1.60 km.
30. Drive southeast on Epping Road, 0.38 km.
31. Turn left onto Culloden Road, 0.64 km.
32. Enter the roundabout and take the 2nd exit onto Culloden Road, 0.52 km.
33. Enter the roundabout and take the 3rd exit onto Talavera Road, 0.25 km.
34. Drive southeast on Talavera Road, 0.42 km.
35. Enter the roundabout and take the 1st exit onto Talavera Road, 0.70 km.
36. Make a right U-turn onto Talavera Road, if permitted, 0.17 km.
37. Bear left onto Herring Road, 0.38 km.
38. Turn left onto Waterloo Road, 0.22 km.
39. Turn left, 0.20 km.
40. Your destination is on the left.

This is a sample route only. The full, current set of Ryde driving test routes is included in the download.

Route breakdown

• Distance: 20.39 km
• Duration: about 40 minutes
• Turns: 31 total, 8 left and 11 right, plus 2 bear lefts and 9 roundabouts and a uturn right
• Longest stretch: Epping Road, 5.66 km

What to expect on the roads this route covers

Epping Road dominates this road test route, close to 30% of the entire route, one of the highest single-road shares in this catalog, a real primary-classed road, with Blaxland Road also primary-classed on the same route.

Tips for this specific route

• Get comfortable holding speed on Epping Road. It carries close to 30% of this route's total distance, one of the highest single-road shares in this catalog, a real primary-classed road.
• This route also touches Blaxland Road, another real primary-classed road, worth extra attention.
• This route has a right-leaning turn pattern with 11 rights, 8 lefts, two bear-lefts, a U-turn, and 9 roundabouts.