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Road work: paving, striping listed on US-281 from Oct. 16, 2026

The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: paving, striping at US-281 from Junction US 14 West to 1.50 miles south of Junction US 212 West-Redfield, with a listed start of Oct. 16, 2026.

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Key facts

What
Public safety
When
Record date Oct. 16, 2026; Added Oct. 15, 2026
Source
Road work and restrictions
Read time
About 2 minutes

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Road work: paving, striping is listed at US-281 from Junction US 14 West to 1.50 miles south of Junction US 212 West-Redfield, according to the South Dakota Department of Transportation's traveller-information feed.

The feed gives the route as US-281, the reference milepost as 145.035 and the affected direction as Both Directions.

The feed publishes a listed start of Oct. 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m. MDT / 2:50 p.m. CDT and no listed end — the feed publishes none for this record, which is how it represents work scheduled until further notice. Each is one instant shown in both of South Dakota's zones — Mountain first, Central second; they are the same moment. The feed names a route and not a zone, so 605Buzz does not pick one for you.

Whether this work is currently underway is not stated in this text: it depends on the time you are reading, and the department is the authority.

The feed publishes coordinates of 44.65594658, -98.50389489 for this record. Those are the department's own figures, reproduced as published; 605Buzz does not geocode.

The department's own description of the work, reproduced without changes as published in the feed:

The following road construction project is in progress: paving at intersections and striping with delays 15 minutes, flaggers, lanes reduced to 1, and pilot car until further notice. Paving on intersecting roads, rumble strips, and permanent pavement markings remain to be completed. Traffic will be controlled with flaggers and pilot car.

That paragraph is the department's wording at the time this record was last read, including any dates or restrictions inside it.

605Buzz has not independently verified conditions on this road. Schedules change with weather and contractor progress, and the department is the authority; check SD511 before travelling.

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How the times are shown

The feed publishes start and end as numeric timestamps, so each is shown as a clock reading in both of South Dakota's zones.

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Whether work is currently underway is not written into the article text, deliberately: it depends on when you are reading. 605Buzz computes it from the listed dates each time the page loads rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing. The status at the top of the page is that computation, not a claim the department made.

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605Buzz has published 7 road records from the South Dakota Department of Transportation within about 16 miles of this location with a listed start on or before this date. 2 of them state an end date on or after it. SDDOT published no end date for the other 5, which is how the department represents work scheduled until further notice — 605Buzz cannot compute whether those are current, and does not guess. SD511 is the department's own live conditions service.

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