Edinburgh drivers issued warning amid traffic tailbacks ‘for miles …
Edinburgh drivers have been issued a warning as lines of traffic[1] queue for 'miles'.
It comes as the city is buzzing with visitors for the first weekend of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Scotland v France rugby game at Murrayfield[2] Stadium, and Truckfest.
One driver spotted cars tailing back 'for miles' along the slip road at Ingilston near Edinburgh Airport.[3]
Throughout Saturday, Traffic Scotland has been reporting heavy congestion along the M8, M9 and M90 towards Edinburgh.
At 2.30pm on August 5, taking to social media, it said: '"Heavy traffic on routes towards Edinburgh due to a combination of the Rugby at Murrayfield, @Truckfest_Live at Ingliston and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. #M90 southbound J3 - J1B delays around 30 mins."
Traffic is expected to be disrupted through the weekend as The UCI Championships Men's Elite Road Race kicks off from Arthur's Seat at 9.30am on Sunday, August 6.
A number of road closures will be in place throughout Sunday.
Road Closures
- From 9am the M90 Northbound will be closed from M9 Junction 1A for around an hour.
- The A90 Northbound from the Barnton Junction will be closed from around 9.30am until all participants are over the Queensferry Crossing.
- From 6.30pm on August 5 until noon on August 6, Queens Drive, Horse Wynd and Dukes Walk will be closed.
- From 11.59pm on August 5 until 1.45pm on August 6, Canongate and New Street will be closed.
- From 11.59pm until 11.15 on August 6 the High Street and Lawnmarket will be closed.
- From 8am until 9.45am on August 6, Abbeyhill and Calton Hill will be closed.
- Between 9am and 9.45 on August 6, George IV Bridge, Lawnmarket, Bank Street, North Bank Street, The Mound, Hanover Street, Queen Street Gardens East, Heriot Row, Howe Street, South-East Circus Place and North-West Circus Place will be closed.
- Between 9.10am until 9.45 on August 6, Kerr Street, Deenhaugh Street, Raeburn Place, Comely Bank Road and Craigleith Road will be closed.
- Between 9.15am and 9.50am on August 6, Queensferry Road and Hillhouse Road will be closed.
- Find the full list of road closures and timings here[5].
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References
- ^ traffic (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ Murrayfield (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ Edinburgh Airport. (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ Edinburgh lifeboat crews save man with hypothermia stranded at local beauty spot (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ here (www.edinburgh.gov.uk)
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- ^ here (data.reachplc.com)