Chaos in central Edinburgh

Well today was the first day of the tram works to start in Princes Street. You through traffic in Auckland was bad if there is a accident...it is nothing on closing a section on Princes Street in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is in the middle of putting tram lines in and there has been some work going on down Leith Walk for weeks now amongst other places like St Andrews Square, but today they closed down the junction around Princes, The Mound and Hanover Street, (sorry about the photo, taken from a webcam I didn't have my camera on me today)

Anyway all traffic including all the buses are being diverted from Princes Street up Frederick Street, then along George Street, down Hanover Street, then back onto Princes Street

Well because of the round abouts and the fact that George is already busy and is only single lane each way the city came to a stand still, it was taking the buses 35 mins to run one block!!! Pure madness I tell you. Not sure what they are going to do, they recon this is going to go on for 14 weeks!!!! The buses drivers were not impressed the time tables are all out and everyone is pissed to say the least. For me however I found it all quiet entertaining :o) I got off the bus before the divert, walked the block and hopped on an earlier bus, a bit of that Kiwi "thinking outside the box" stuff.