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Road work: pavement repair listed on SD-34 from Nov. 9, 2026

The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: pavement repair at SD-34 from 1.75 miles east of Junction US 81 North to 1.75 miles west of Junction South Dakota 19 South, with a listed start of Nov. 9, 2026.

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Key facts

What
Public safety
When
Record date Nov. 9, 2026; Added Nov. 6, 2026
Source
Road work and restrictions
Read time
About 1 minute

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SD-34 is scheduled for pavement repair in both directions.

The state transportation department describes the work this way:

The following road construction project is scheduled to begin: from 6:53 AM CST Monday, November 9, 2026 pavement repair with lanes reduced to 2 until further notice. Pavement repair expected to start November 9th. Weather depending work should take one week.

The listed work zone runs from 1.75 miles east of Junction US 81 North to 1.75 miles west of Junction South Dakota 19 South, near milepost 381. The work is listed from 5:53 a.m. Mountain time (6:53 a.m. Central) Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, with no end date, which is how work scheduled until further notice is listed. The listing does not say which time zone applies, so both are given.

Plans change with weather and crews' progress; the South Dakota Department of Transportation has the latest at SD511.

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How the times are shown

The department 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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605Buzz has published 5 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. SDDOT published no end date for all of them, 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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