South Dakota’s 4th diverging diamond open in Brandon - Keloland

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO) — Brandon is now home to the fourth diverging diamond interchange in South Dakota. Tuesday, city and state officials came together to celebrate its opening with a ribbon-cutting.

If you’ve traveled on Interstate 90 near Brandon, you may have experienced the challenge of getting off at the exit. Before this diverging diamond was here, there was a bridge on Splitrock Boulevard.

“If you were traveling to the west from the east and had to get off at our exit here, Exit 406, and then turn south, it was a little bit scary,” said Harry Buck, mayor of Brandon. “I mean, people could come over that bridge really fast, and you couldn’t really see them until they got there.”

For the past two years, the South Dakota Department of Transportation has been working on the interchange.

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