Ransome is a small, leafy pocket on the bayside edge where Brisbane meets the Redlands, sitting quietly between Thorneside and Gumdale. With Rickertt Road as its only real through road and calm cul-de-sacs off Molle and Chelsea Roads, it is an easy place to find gentle streets for a first lesson. Automatic or manual, picked up from home, work or school.
Ransome is one of the quietest addresses on this side of the bay, made up of two small residential pockets set among bushland, parkland and the Tingalpa Creek reserves. Most beginners start on the side streets off Rickertt Road and around the Molle Road pocket, where traffic is light and there is room to settle into steering, gears and slow-speed manoeuvres. With reserves like Ransome Reserve along the Moreton Bay foreshore nearby, the streets stay unhurried while you find your feet.
As confidence grows, Rickertt Road offers a straight east-west run and the give-way turns where it meets Wakerley and Thorneside, while Green Camp Road on the western edge brings slightly busier junctions to read. From Ransome the drive to the Cleveland test centre heads east along Rickertt Road into Thorneside, then follows Birkdale Road and Old Cleveland Road East through Birkdale toward Cleveland, joining Bloomfield Street near the Ross Court Centre. It is roughly a twelve-kilometre run, so there is plenty of chance to rehearse the very roads that lead to test day.
Every Redlands practical test, Ransome included, is run by Transport and Main Roads from the Ross Court Centre on the corner of Bloomfield Street and Ross Court in Cleveland. From Ransome it is a short drive south-east, out along Rickertt Road and down through Birkdale, so lesson time can be spent on the exact streets, roundabouts and turns the examiner is likely to use. When the day arrives you sit the test in the same tuition car you have been learning in, already at home with its size, mirrors and biting point.
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All Redlands tests, Ransome included, run from the Transport and Main Roads centre at the Ross Court Centre on Bloomfield Street in Cleveland, about twelve kilometres south-east. We usually drive out along Rickertt Road and through Birkdale first, so the route feels known long before you arrive.
They are among the quietest around. With Rickertt Road the only real through road and calm pockets off Molle and Chelsea Roads, there is very little through traffic, so it is an easy place to practise clutch control, turns and reversing before stepping up to busier bayside roads.
Yes. We collect you from home, work or a handy spot such as Ransome Reserve or the Gumdale side, then start in the quiet local streets. Because the suburb is small, we often warm up here and cross into Thorneside or Birkdale for more varied practice.
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