Leeds: Is the cost and availability of driving lessons driving you mad?

What are your recent experiences of the cost and availability of driving lessons and tests?

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00:00Driving lessons and driving tests are overly priced, and the wait time is kind of ridiculous.

00:07You know, get people on the road.

00:09My nephew recently did his, and I think he waited for the test for a few months.

00:13I think it needs a little bit of work to do for the department.

00:18I know it's busy everywhere, and I don't blame them.

00:20They are also busy, but something to look into.

00:24I know people that have been waiting for driving lessons or getting their tests booked,

00:27you know, for months.

00:28I'm 25 now.

00:29When I was a teenager, it was like £40 an hour.

00:33Now you're looking at £70 to £80 an hour, and obviously I know that that comes from

00:37a perspective of me coming from somewhere more rural in Wales.

00:41So it's not going to be as much of a market, but I mean, it should be nationalised.

00:45I think if you go to other countries, I lived in the Middle East, and that whole thing is

00:48nationalised.

00:49You don't get every Tom, Dick and Harry doing driver's lessons and charging an arm and a

00:53leg just to get people through a door.

00:55I think it should be something that's offered from the government and should be semi-affordable.