{"id":961649,"date":"2026-05-15T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:48:17","slug":"all-the-edinburgh-road-closures-on-saturday-if-hearts-win-premiership-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961649\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Edinburgh road closures on Saturday if Hearts win Premiership title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Further Edinburgh road closures have been announced for Saturday in the event Hearts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/heart-of-midlothian-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:emerge victorious;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;emerge victorious&quot;}\" class=\"link \">emerge victorious<\/a> in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Although the Jambos are playing away to Celtic in the deciding match, Edinburgh Council has plans in place for the aftermath of the game. A proposed route for a <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/edinburgh-road-closures-bus-diversions-110924923.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:victory parade;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;victory parade&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victory parade<\/a> on Sunday has also been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A draw or win at Parkhead will give Hearts the title, their first in the league in 66 years, with celebrations in the capital expected to be spectacular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The proposed road closures would allow fans to line the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/terrified-edinburgh-mum-moment-creepy-114802159.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:streets;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;streets&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streets<\/a> near Tynecastle Park and welcome the team back to the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McLeod Street will be shut completely between 2.30pm on Saturday to 9pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between 2.30pm and 11.59pm on Saturday, the following roads will be closed:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gorgie Road &#8211; between Robertson Avenue and Ardmillan Terrace<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newton Street &#8211; in its entirety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">White Park &#8211; in its entirety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tynecastle Terrace &#8211; in its entirety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tynecastle Lane &#8211; in its entirety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Sunday&#8217;s planned victory parade, a total of 64 roads would be subject to full or partial closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gorgie Road is expected to be closed between Robertson Avenue and Ardmillan Terrace between 9am and 9pm. All other roads, both on and adjoining the route, are expected to be closed between 10am and 9pm &#8211; with the exception of Wheatfield Street and Wheatfield Place, which would only be closed between 3pm and 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The route the parade would take is as follows: High Street, Lawnmarket, Bank Street, North Bank Street, The Mound, Princes Street, Shandwick Place, West Maitland Street, Dalry Road, Gorgie Road, McLeod Street (Tynecastle Park).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lothian has confirmed bus diversions will be put in place on a number of services to mitigate against disruption to services but delays are anticipated. Trams will also be running a split service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All closures and diversions detailed above will only occur if Hearts win the league on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further Edinburgh road closures have been announced for Saturday in the event Hearts emerge victorious in the Scottish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,37802,4884,63704,268641,15007,712,1638,267558,16,15,268642],"class_list":{"0":"post-961649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-council","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hearts","13":"tag-mcleod-street","14":"tag-road-closures","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-scottish-premiership","17":"tag-tynecastle-park","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-victory-parade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116578910762386127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961649","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=961649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}