These fascinating photos of the Capital’s streets in the 1970s have been selected rom the Evening News archive to illustrate just how different things were back then.
The cars are different from today’s - and they’re allowed to drive along Princes Street. There are parking meters on Waverley Bridge. And Market Street looks even busier than it is today.
Scroll through the pictures to get a glimpse of everyday life out and about on the roads of Edinburgh five decades ago.
13. Coates Gardens
Cars parked along the middle of the road in Coates Gardens, Edinburgh in October 1973. | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
14. Roseburn jam
The opening of the West Link Road, later called the West Approach, Road, made little difference to the traffic jams at Roseburn, Edinburgh, in December 1974. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
15. Snowy Newington
Winter in Edinburgh - cars plough through the snow in Newington in December 1976. | TSPL Photo: David Liddle
16. Waverley Bridge
Edinburgh traffic wardens booking a car at a parking meter on Waverley Bridge in October 1976. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton