Ok, so I hate driving sometimes.

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Just got back from Edinburgh, and a very nice evening almost spoiled by me being stupid and driving through there.
At the moment Edinburgh is a hellish place to drive. I was going to the middle of the New Town, and there is no route there which doesn't involve at least 30 minutes of sitting in almost gridlocked traffic. Partly this is down to their admirable decision to put in a tram system, partly by Edinburgh's constrained geography, but mostly down to the fact that Edinburgh hates me. Don't know why, but there you go. No matter which way I turn, which road I drive down, it's just one dead end and road closure after another.
I live in a lovely, leafy part of Glasgow, but I can take two left turns and merge with the Motorway. I can do the 48 miles to the outskirts of Edinburgh very quickly (I once did it in 30 minutes, but I was much younger then). And then you sit for 40 minutes doing the last four or five miles. I hates it. And getting back out is almost worse - there's no sensible or easy way back to the Motorway from Edinburgh city centre. It's just... sticky, as if the city doesn't want to let you go.
If it wasn't full of lovely people, art and the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, I'd never go back. And as it is I'm NEVER driving there again.

Rant over...

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I've stopped driving into Edinburgh, now I use the Hermiston park and ride. The buses are fairly frequent and the night bus stops there too.