{"id":40562,"date":"2025-04-22T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40562\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:15:08","slug":"edinburgh-city-bypass-incident-triggers-massive-queues-and-rush-hour-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40562\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh city bypass &#8216;incident&#8217; triggers massive queues and rush hour delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/traffic-and-travel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:incident;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">incident<\/a> &#8216; on the Edinburgh city bypass brought commuters to a standstill during rush hour on Tuesday morning (April 22).<\/p>\n<p>A broken down HGV on the A720 at Baberton triggered massive queues at 7:10am after the eastbound carriageway was left partially blocked by the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters have been brought to a halt with delays of 54 minutes expected.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/moment-brazen-edinburgh-youths-without-152307739.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Moment brazen Edinburgh youths without tickets leap fence at Terminal V festival;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moment brazen Edinburgh youths without tickets leap fence at Terminal V festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/started-edinburgh-group-friends-am-145203295.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;I started an Edinburgh group to make friends and am gobsmacked at the result&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I started an Edinburgh group to make friends and am gobsmacked at the result&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> <b>and get the latest news sent<\/b> <b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Motorists are encouraged to approach with caution.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Updating road users on their website, Traffic Scotland said: &#8220;The A720 eastbound between Calder junction and Baberton junction is currently restricted, due to a broken down vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is currently a 54 minute delay. Road users are advised to use caution on approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An &#8216; incident &#8216; on the Edinburgh city bypass brought commuters to a standstill during rush hour on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,23098,1102,23097,4884,712,19261,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-40562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-eastbound-carriageway","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-city-bypass","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-traffic-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114380624954200810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}