PIERRE, (KCCR) — There is one more project to get done on the south end of the Euclid Avenue reconstruction project. T-J Gallagher with Morris Incorporated says an overheight detection system is being installed prior to the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern overhead railroad crossing…
The system is one final attempt to prevent trucks and campers from meeting their match passing under the railroad viaduct. It will consist of a series of buoys hanging below a cross arm…
With the construction last year, the road surface under the viaduct was lowered nine inches for a total clearance of 12 feet from the former 11 foot-three inch height. Gallagher says traffic flow will be maintained during the work…
Since the lower part of the Euclid project opened last November the there have been no incidents of overheight vehicles striking the bridge. Captain Kyle Cummings with the Pierre Police Department confirmed as of early May that the last crash report taken by police was March 10th,but that was never substantiated from an anonymous third party report. Prior to the March 10th report the last bridge strike responded to by police was on February 11th of 2025.
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