The tubes or boxes that were built up in a dry dock and then moved by flotation to be sunk in the channel bottom of the bay of Havana, where he previously had dug the trench where deposited and achieved after three years of work, and the work became a reality the longing bind in a fast and convenient Havana thus thought to be the Ciudad del Este and a string of beaches of enchantment with its white sands and crystalline waters. It was enough under the sea through the bay of Havana and this was done in seconds. The idea of shortening the travel time between the city and beaches of this certainly was not new. For many years they could get to them all along the bay and was forced use of bad roads, which made the journey very uncomfortable .. Already in 1910 or 12, Dionisio Velasco, engineer and owner of vast tracts of land in the east of Havana, he designed a bridge that would run on the bay between the Avenida del Puerto and the heights of La Cabana.

It was the appropriate solution for the time. But the project never got beyond that because the U.S. vetoed the Congress …, which argued that in case of war the destruction of this road would cause the closure of a port of strategic importance such as La Habana.