The Causeway, Bermuda by Hurricane Fabian, the Bermuda Government began investigating alternatives to simply repairing the causeway after each storm knocked it out. These alternatives include an underwater tunnel, a true bridge and constructing additional roadways, such as through Coney Island and Ferry Reach parks. Public meetings on these plans began in October, 2006. By February 2010, however, plans to replace the causeway had been abandoned, and the issue was a touchy subject when raised in the Senate of Bermuda. The Causeway, Bermuda The Causeway is a narrow strip of reclaimed land and bridges in the north of Bermuda linking Hamilton Parish on
United States Naval Station White's Island, Bermuda West Indies Squadron since the American War of Independence had cost the Royal Navy all of its continental bases between Nova Scotia and the West Indies. During the Great War, the Royal Naval vessels based in Bermuda had been used to enforce Britain's control of the Atlantic, hunting down German commerce raiders and fighting the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Bermuda's location in the North Atlantic, the presence of the Royal Naval base, and the enclosing barrier reef that protected its anchorages from submarines, resulted in the colony becoming a major forming-up point for trans-Atlantic convoys (Bermuda would serve all