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.
25. East Fountainbridge
Cars pass the old SMT garage after a new traffic system was introduced at East Fountainbridge in Edinburgh in June 1978. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
26. Bread Street
Cars pass traffic cones at the junction of East Fountainbridge and Bread Street, as a new traffic system is introduced in June 1978.. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
27. Tractor protest
Farmers drove 30 tractors from Torness through the centre of Edinburgh to the Royal Highland show in protest at the building of the the nuclear power station in June 1978. The tractors caused major traffic jams in Princes Street. | TSPL Photo: George Smith
28. Helping hand
A kind traffic warden pushes a car on North Bridge during the blizzards in Edinburgh, January 1978. | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie