EDINBURGH'S Princes Street will re-open for buses, taxis and bikes this Saturday as tram construction work moves into its next phase, creating fresh traffic problems east of the city centre.

The famous thoroughfare will open west of Waverley Bridge after 10 months of work to re-lay botched tram tracks, with the re-opening of the Mound to general traffic also expected to help ease congestion, it was announced yesterday.

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