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Groton Daily Independent
Thursday, Nov. 02, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 116 ~ 4 of 44
Bruce Schroeder of the South Dakota De- partment of Transpor- tation (right) talks with Wade Boltjes of Dakota Traf c Services. They go over the nal details before opening SD37 to general traf c. (Photo by Paul Kosel)
SD37 is open!
by Paul Kosel, Groton Daily Independent
The $5 million renovation project for SD37 and US12 going through Groton has reached its major completion mark as SD37 was opened to general traf c at 6:41 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, right on schedule. US12 was open to general traf c in the last part of August. The project began the rst part of April.
The project included new LED lights for SD37 and US12, a new turning lane on US12 for south and north bound traf c onto SD37, new storm sewers for SD37 along with curb and gutter and a new as- phalt road. In addition, about 1.5 miles of new sidewalk was installed along SD37.
The Safe Routes to School grant became part of the major project with the cross walk being moved from Fourth Avenue to Fifth Avenue across SD37.
The intersection of the highways have new three-way control lights and a push button has been in- stalled for pedestrians to cross the highway.
The new LED lights on US12 will be installed in January. The original plan called to reuse the original poles, but when they were taken down, they were found to be rusty and not usable; thus, a change order was done. The new poles will not arrive until January.
There will be more work to be done in the spring near the intersection and a new project going north out of Groton on SD37 will be done next year.
One of the unique things that happened this summer was weekly meetings that were broadcast live on GDILIVE.COM to help keep local residents informed of the progress on the project.