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Princes Street is one of the main highways in the downtown Edinburgh, Scotland, and its main shopping street. It is the most southern to the street of Edinburgh the New city stretched 1 mile (1,6 km) from Lothian Road in the West to Leith Street in the east. On the street are generally closed for private cars, with public transport a priority / Only in east part of the street are open for all traffic. The main part of the street it is limited buses and a taxi only. During 2009 and again in 2012, part of the street Trams of construction works were closed for all traffic, as part of Edinburgh. It was put according to formal plans of the New city of Edinburgh, nowadays known as the First New Town. They were developed according to the project of architect James Craig and construction began in Printsess Street represented important part of the plan, being external edge, with a look the Edinburgh Castle and original the cities: "Edinburgh Old city ".