And the reason for all those delays and disruption is seen in this photo which is looking eastbound across the Picardy Place tramstop site. The pole in the centre holds up the end of the current overhead and trams to Leith will run away from the camera. The excavator on the left is in the middle of the York Place/Broughton Street junction. The Playhouse Theatre can be seen in the distance with the four flagpoles and roughly along the line of lampposts on the right there was, until the 1960s, a block of tenements where Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) was born in 1859. (Photograph by Roy Calderwood, 28th January 2022)