PI Update: Bypass Causeway Demolition

Two years ago when Pleasure Island was undergoing extensive demolition and construction work, it was necessary to build a pedestrian bypass causeway over the waters of Village Lake and around the Island itself.  The bypass was supposedly temporary and with Hill Street on the Island now reopened for foot traffic, the bypass is indeed closed.

But the causeway is still attached to the West Side near the Characters In Flight balloon ride and goes past BET Soundstage and Adventurers Club.

And it still leads to the Pleasure Island water taxi boat dock, although the dock is not in use at this time.  You can see here that the causeway now ends at the dock and has been demolished east of that point.

Pilings remain where the causeway used to curve back onto Pleasure Island near Paradiso 37.

And this picture shows where the causeway actually connected back to the Island.  Will be interesting to see if the Pleasure Island (or The Landing) will still have its own water taxi dock.  It seems kind of pointless to get on a water taxi at the West Side by House of Blues and then get off at the PI dock only to have to walk back over to the West Side.  Maybe the dock will be moved over to this point adjacent the new Hanger Bar and then the remainder of the causeway can be removed.  We'll see.