The DSA has confirmed the locations and commencement of driving tests from two of Nottingham Trent University\u2019s sites.<\/p>\n
The service commences from 11 March 2013<\/strong>. Tests will be available from the Clifton Campus on Mondays and Wednesdays, and from Clarendon Street on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n I must stress that I don\u2019t have any issues, in principle<\/strong>, with doing tests from these sites. I\u2019m not convinced by the government\u2019s \u201cbringing the test to the people\u201d mantra, but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n However, the practicalities of this service do worry me a little. In particular, will there be any half-witted ADIs \u201cpractising\u201d in the bays when you get there; and how the hell will candidates get off<\/strong> the Clifton campus to do their tests (the A453 is allegedly second only to the M25 in terms of the volume of traffic that goes along it). Indeed, the traffic density on the A453 – it ranges from almost gridlock all the way up to total gridlock for 23 hours of the day (or worse if some prat breaks down or crashes on it) – means that even getting on to<\/strong> the site is a challenge-and-a-half.<\/p>\n And then there are the road works – A453 widening has just started and is scheduled to last TWO YEARS,<\/strong> and Nottingham\u2019s huge white elephant (aka \u201cPhase II of the Tram\u201d) is still more than a year away from completion, resulting in road closures throughout the area (including the City Centre site also being used for tests). So\u00a0<\/strong>I wonder how many people will be late for their tests as a result?<\/p>\n Instructions on how to arrive are given in the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The DSA has confirmed the locations and commencement of driving tests from two of Nottingham Trent University\u2019s sites. The service commences from 11 March 2013. Tests will be available from the Clifton Campus on Mondays and Wednesdays, and from Clarendon Street on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I must stress that I don\u2019t have any issues, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,81,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t