Some of the scenes captured in this selection of pictures from the Evening News Archives are familiar enough - queuing traffic, congestion and busy roads - though some of the streets have changed a bit and so have the cars.
But some of the pictures are a reminder of things which have faded in the memory - like cars on Princes Street, the toll booths at the Forth Road Bridge and rubber ridges to keep traffic out of pedestrianised areas on the Royal Mile.
Scroll through the pictures and get a glimpse of the way things were on the roads in and around Edinburgh back in the 1990s.
5. Looking down Leith Walk
Looking down Leith Walk in Edinburgh, March 1990. | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
6. Dinosaur stops the traffic
One of the exhibits from the Dinosaurs Alive! exhibition at the City Art Centre stops the Edinburgh traffic in Princes Street, February 1990. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
7. Tollcross 30 years ago
The view from Home Street at Tollcross, looking towards Bruntsfield, June 1990. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan
8. Snowy Fairmilehead
Cars slither along the roads as the snow falls in Fairmilehead Edinburgh, January 1990 | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell