The Road is the unofficial name for the road that connects the villages of
Saba Saba may refer to:
Places
* Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea
* Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
* Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras
* Saba (river), ...
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Caribbean island. It is nicknamed as "The Road That Couldn't Be Built."
History
After several engineers claimed that a road in Saba could not be built,
Josephus Lambert Hassell (1906-1983),
a Saban, along with the Saban people, began building the road in 1938.
No machines were used during the creation of the road. In 1943, the first section of the road (between
Fort Bay
Fort Bay is the official and only port on the island of Saba and sits on the south side of the island, about by road from The Bottom. The port is very important for the island as most of its supplies arrive here by boat. The port currently has ...
and
The Bottom
The Bottom (formerly ''Botte'') is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands, and is the first stop on the way from Saba's Port in Fort Bay towards the rest of the island. In 2001, it had 462 inhabitants of th ...
) was inaugurated. By 1958, The Road was finished.
Route
There are no official documents about the exact route of The Road. After matching several sources
The Road is believed to go from Well's Bay Beach to Cove Bay Beach with a branch to Fort Bay after The Bottom, in the direction of Well's Bay Beach.The Road connects the island with
the airport as well.
References
Saba (island)
Roads in the Caribbean
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