@creadinger 157118 wrote:
Wow! I’ve ridden by that tunnel like a dozen times on Mill Road and never noticed it’s existence. Where the heck does it come out? Behind that Extra Space Storage building and up the sidewalk to Duke St?
Yeah. The entry under the overpass has a set of stairs and a rusty railing. The whole area was significantly cleaned up sometime in the last year or two. It used to be the overgrown kind of place where you found mattresses and bags of who knows what strewn about. The lights inside used to not work. I thought it was an abandoned entrance to the sewer or some service thing to the railway for a long time till I discovered the south side entrance and connected them together in my mind*. I’ve yet to actually go through it.
There is a gloomily shaded trail hemmed in between the off-ramp hill and a fence going west over lightly heaving sidewalk, curving towards the animal hospital. It’s long and remote enough that anybody walking through it is out of sight and earshot of any civilization. A not insignificant little hill goes up the east side along the wall of the Storage building.
I live across Duke on the north side of that tunnel. One Sunday morning I went to see a movie at Hoffman with Mrs. Studygroup and I suggested we walk home through the tunnel since it’s a significant shortcut. We walked up to it and as soon as she saw the entrance she refused to get closer, and after some insisting from me, started crying from fear. We took the long way back. That is powerful access infrastructure haha.
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