Work on I-90 exit delayed for months

By Journal staff | Monday, January 29, 2007

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BLACK HAWK - Delays in securing rights of way have forced the South Dakota Department of Transportation to delay its planned reconstruction of the Interstate 90 Black Hawk exit and related road work, officials said.

One project will be delayed by six months, and the main project will be delayed a full year, officials said.

Plans call for complete reconstruction of the exit - in fact, the DOT is moving the exit from mile marker 51 to mile marker 52, near Mill Road - and the nearby roadways. The Piedmont Service Road will be widened to three lanes between Exit 46 and Black Hawk to handle more traffic. And the 'S' curves at Black Hawk will be improved to meet current highway-design standards.

The new configuration will handle more traffic and eliminate some of the safety problems that have plagued the Black Hawk exit for years, officials say.

The Piedmont Service Road project was originally intended to begin in the fall of 2006. The I-90 work was expected to start in the spring of 2007.

Now, however, the Piedmont Service Road project is scheduled to start in April of this year. Work on Exit 52 and the I-90 S-curves will begin in spring 2008.

Tom Horan of the DOT said the rights of way along the Piedmont service road are either resolved or close to being resolved, and that project will be ready to begin in April. The Exit 52 right-of-way acquisitions will likely take longer, and that project is scheduled to go to bid in the fall.