The Southlands developers have attempted to persuade the public that their proposal is of “national importance”.
Unfortunately, the Southlands developers passed over some very important statistics that bring the Southlands proposal into clearer perspective.
In 1986 Bermuda had almost 600,000 visitors (in 1987 the figure topped 600,000).
Anyone who lived here at the time will remember how overwhelmed our infrastructure was for those successive summers. We experienced a collective strain and exhaustion. In the shops, store clerks lost patience and were snippy with customers. There weren’t enough taxis for those who wanted them and taxi drivers also had their patience worn thin, both from the sheer volume of demand and from the heightened congestion on our roads. Even pedestrians were exasperated by the difficulty just walking in Hamilton on sidewalks clogged with visitors. (more…)
