COMMUTERS will have to watch empty trams trundle along Princes Street for six months as exhaustive safety checks are carried out.
The "ghost trams" are scheduled to start in January 2014 but the first paying customers will not be on board until the summer.
Critics branded the checks excessive as more complicated tram networks south of the Border only had two months of tests.
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