Local transport links
Commuters enjoy frequent train services across Edinburgh City
Region.
Typical travel times from Edinburgh Waverley station include
Edinburgh Park (8 minutes); Falkirk (23 mins); Dunfermline (39
mins); Stirling (41 mins); Kirkcaldy (55 mins) and North Berwick
(59 mins).
Edinburgh has the highest bus use, per head of population, of
any city in the UK outside of London and an extensive bus network
covers all parts of the city, its suburbs and the surrounding city
region.
Lothian Buses carries
350,000 passengers every weekday and operates over 50 bus services
in Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian. First Bus runs around 300
services throughout Edinburgh and the surrounding areas.
From 2011, a new tram network will
link Edinburgh's Waterfront to the city centre and onwards to the
airport, providing fast, accessible and environmentally-friendly
transport across the city.
A new crossing over the Firth of Forth, due in 2016, will
improve transport connections by road. Other local transport links
include 150km of on and off-road cycle lanes throughout the
city.
