ANOTHER year of diversions for tram works in the west end of Edinburgh come into force this weekend.
Existing works at Shandwick Place and Haymarket are being extended to include West Maitland Street from 5am tomorrow, with new traffic diversions also being introduced.
Residents and businesses have been updated on the plans in recent weeks at a series of briefings to help them plan for the changes, Edinburgh City Council said.
The council said it has also set up the West End Focus Group and is spending £175,000 on ways to bring shoppers to the area, including using advertising and signage during the works, which are to end at Shandwick Place by spring 2013 and Haymarket by autumn next year.
Some west end firms have complained that they lost hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of business because of tram works.
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