![]() There were calls in 2012 for abandoning the tunnel, and replacing it with a bridge, but this did not come to pass. ![]() The cascade flooded 90 per cent of the school, delaying the start of classes by weeks. In 2010 torrential rains filled the tunnel with a five foot wall of water. Unanswered is the question of why the tunnel must be abandoned, and officials declined to explain this. The Nicolet school district will instead pick up the school bus students by van at the stop, and drive them to the campus. But that is about to change, and the tunnel is to be closed and permanently filled in. Students from outside the district who travel by bus are dropped off outside the tunnel’s eastern entrance and cross under the freeway to school. It is even used for its original purpose of providing access to school and to athletic events. There is evidence that it was used for drinking, smoking, romancing, playing hooky, running from the cops, graffiti-ing and other pursuits. The pedestrian tunnel, believed to be the only one beneath I-43, has served many purposes over more than a half century. Photo by Michael Horne.Īny student who has attended Nicolet High School is familiar with the tunnel that connects the Glendale school’s campus with its upper playing fields, located in the 6700 block of N.
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