public-safety
Road work: bridge repair listed on US-281 from April 21, 2026
The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: bridge repair at US-281 from 9.50 miles south to 6 miles south of Junction US 12-Aberdeen, with a listed start of April 21, 2026.
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Road work: bridge repair is listed at US-281 from 9.50 miles south to 6 miles south of Junction US 12-Aberdeen, according to the South Dakota Department of Transportation's traveller-information feed.
The feed gives the route as US-281, the reference milepost as 187.152 and the affected direction as Both Directions.
The feed publishes a listed start of April 21, 2026, 12:47 p.m. MDT / 1:47 p.m. CDT and a listed end of Oct. 16, 2026, 4 p.m. MDT / 5 p.m. CDT. 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 45.35512645, -98.5153673 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: bridge repair with delays 5 minutes, lanes reduced to 1, no passing, speed limit 35 mph, traffic routed to opposing lanes, truck speed limit 35 mph, and width limit 12 ft daily between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM until 5:00 PM CDT Friday, October 16, 2026. For information or questions about a construction project, please find contact information for our SDDOT Area Offices at:
That paragraph is the department's wording at the time this record was last read, including any dates or restrictions inside it.
The feed links dot.sd.gov/inside-sddot/region-area-offices/region-area-offices for this project.
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.