Transport |

Car Parking 
There are short-term pay and display spaces throughout Edinburgh city centre with almost 500 pay and display machines and about 5,500 parking spaces. An innovative scheme where drivers can use their mobile phones to pay for parking has been launched in the city centre called mPark. Options include credit/debit card payment as well as text reminders for soon-to-expire tickets. Registration for this service is available on the City of Edinburgh CouncilÕs website. 
Edinburgh also offers a network of off-street car parks and dedicated permitted zones for resident and visitor parking and a map of these car parks is available at: 
www.edinburgh.gov.uk. 

Buses 
Lothian Buses offers 50 services as well as 12 Night Bus routes around the capital while First Bus operates some 300 services throughout the Edinburgh region and beyond. An extensive inter-city bus network operated by Scottish Citylink links Edinburgh city region to points across Scotland and the UK. A popular express bus service runs from the city centre to the airport approximately every 10 minutes and takes only 25 minutes. Travelshops are located on Hanover Street, Waverley Bridge, Shandwick Place and Dalkeith. 
Tel. 0131 555 6363 www.lothianbuses.com 
Tel. 08708 72 72 71 www.firstgroup.com/ ukbus/scotland/sescot 
Tel. 08705 50 50 50 www.citylink.co.uk 

The Forth Estuary Crossings 
The Forth Road Bridge connects Edinburgh with Fife, allowing some 66,000 vehicles to cross the Firth of Forth everyday. Recent studies by Transport Scotland revealed, however, that the bridge will need replacing despite constant maintenance over its 40 years of service. Continuing an invaluable access route, the new bridge will be the single largest transport project for a generation and will cost between £1.72bn and £2.34bn. Work is expected to start in 2011 on the dual two-lane carriageway which will include hard shoulders. 
The existing bridge will be retained as a dedicated corridor for public transport, pedestrians and cyclists. 
www.forthreplacementcrossing.info 
Aberdeen 

Carlisle371 


km 

Dundee
109 265 

Example: Edinburgh to London 
Edinburgh
205 157 
99 

= 405 miles or 652 km 
Fort William
254 327 
204 
213 
237 154 
131 

176 
Glasgow
72 

Distance Chart 
916 
Harwich
546 
810 
696 
872 
698 

Hull
643 273 
537 
423 
598 
425 
358 

Inverness
167 408 
105 
273 
954
223 
251 
680 
867 

London
497 
761 
652 
823 
649 
141 
344 
904 

Manchester
563 193 
457 
348 
519 
345 
422 
156 
600 
321 
404 94 
407 
246 
500 

Newcastle
299 
192 
226 
451 
464 
231 

Oban
295 
390
311 
189 
196 
72 
159 
856 
582 
176 
805 
502