After spending about a week at WDW last week and examining the area as much as possible - I think I am agreeing with many of the posters on here that this is highly unlikely if not totally out of the question.
I think the best explanation is probably construction of a new walkway (or tunnel, but there is nothing to tunnel around the area.) Maybe they didn't want to have the inside resort loop going at the time they were constructing these walkways.
I am surprised that this "rumor" came from a CM to us...