Wednesbury driving test centre

Wednesbury sits inside one of the densest road networks in the country and the test shows it. Twelve A and B routes cross the area within two and a half kilometres, the Black Country New Road runs dual carriageway through it, and eight named roundabouts and junctions carry the traffic between them: Wednesbury Interchange, Moxley Junction, Keyway Junction and Great Bridge Roundabout among them. Twenty-seven mini-roundabouts fill the gaps. The practice loops on this page take in between five and eleven roundabouts each, so there is no quiet version of this route.

Underneath that network is the older town. Dudley Street, Bridge Street, Walsall Street and Trouse Lane are narrow, terraced and heavily parked, and forty-eight per cent of the roads tagged nearby are 20 mph. The test alternates between trunk road speed and a slow street with cars on both sides, sometimes inside the same minute.

Worth practising specifically before a test here:

• Picking the approach lane for a multi-lane roundabout early, then holding it all the way round to the exit.
• Joining and leaving a dual carriageway, matching the speed already on it and shedding it again in the length of the slip.
• Coming down from 40 or 50 into a 20 at the sign rather than after it.
• Emerging right onto a busy main road from a narrow side street, where the gap is short and parked cars take part of the view.

Fifty-three schools sit in the area, which accounts for much of the low limits, and two level crossings are in range. Manoeuvres go on the quieter streets around Myvod Road and Woden Road South.