Edinburgh driving test centre

This is a junction test rather than a roundabout test. Add up the loops and the right turns outnumber the roundabout entries several times over. The busiest of them, ten kilometres out along Edinburgh Road, has fifteen right turns on it. A right turn from a side street onto a road with parked cars narrowing the view is the single most repeated demand of a Musselburgh test.

The old town does the hard work. High Street, North High Street, Bridge Street and Market Street are all on the loops, and they are narrow, down to one working lane in places, with the Esk crossings funnelling traffic into them. Eskside West and Millhill are the same kind of road. Position and forward planning matter far more here than anything to do with speed.

Just over half the roads tagged within a mile and a half of the centre are 20 mph and another quarter are 30. Scotland has not adopted a national 20 mph default, so every change of limit is signed and the sign is often on a lamp post rather than anywhere obvious. The rest of the profile is quieter: a small share at 60 and 70 out towards the Dalkeith bypass and Newcraighall, where the loops pick up speed briefly before dropping back into town.

Twenty-two sets of traffic signals and two level crossings sit in the area the loops cover, along with fifteen schools. Manoeuvres are usually set on the residential streets rather than on the through routes, which is typical of a centre in a town this size.