ONE CITY, SIX VERY DIFFERENT STREETS
Bath doesn't drive the same in any two postcodes.
A hill start in Combe Down and a roundabout run through Odd Down are different jobs entirely. Here's what Dexter actually teaches in each part of the city he covers.
Oldfield Park
Moorland Road on a Tuesday afternoon is delivery vans, buggies and cars parked nose to tail on both sides. There's rarely a straight run of more than fifty yards without someone pulling out, a bin lorry blocking a lane, or a gap you'll need to slow down and negotiate.
See lessons in Oldfield Park COMBE DOWNCombe Down
Combe Down was a stone-mining village long before it was a place people commute from, and the streets still feel like they were laid out for carts, not traffic. Church Road climbs sharply from the bottom of the hill, narrows near the church, and offers almost nowhere to pass an oncoming car without one of you giving way first.
See lessons in Combe Down ODD DOWNOdd Down
The Wellsway stretch through Odd Down moves faster than most of the city, and the roundabouts stack up close enough together that you need to be planning your exit before you've finished entering the one before it.
See lessons in Odd Down TWERTONTwerton
The Lower Bristol Road doesn't look like the postcard version of Bath, and that's exactly why it's useful. Wide lanes, roundabouts feeding the retail park, and a steady flow of vans and lorries moving between the city and the A4.
See lessons in Twerton LARKHALLLarkhall
Larkhall sits on a slope, and most of its residential streets sit on that slope with it. Cars park nose-down on both sides, which leaves a channel down the middle that's often only wide enough for one direction of traffic at a time.
See lessons in Larkhall WESTONWeston
Weston still has the feel of a village that got absorbed into the city rather than built as part of it. The High Street is narrow and busy with local traffic, but drive a few minutes further and you're on the roundabouts near Newbridge that lead straight into Bath's test routes.
See lessons in WestonNot sure which patch you fall into?
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