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.
21. Looking down on Princes Street
Buses, cars, vans, making up the traffic in Edinburgh's Princes Street, April 1993 | TSPL Photo: Alistair Linford
22. Princes Street closed for summit
Princes Street closed to traffic for the Commonwealth summit hosted in Edinburgh by Tony Blair in October 1997 | TSPL
23. High Street traffic ban
Workmen erect a sign preventing traffic from using the High Street in Edinburgh in July 1990. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
24. Driving after snow
A car and lorry negotiate the roads near Ratho after a heavy fall of snow in January 1993. | TSPL Photo: Graeme Hunter