ADOT Blog

“Let there no longer be any north, south, east or west in Arizona, but one glorious state tied together by ribbons of road.” With those words, spoken on May 16, 1953, Arizona Gov. J. Howard Pyle cut a ribbon to officially open the 1,217...

Autumn can sometimes feel more like a state of mind than a season in parts of Arizona, but there are places where you can catch colorful scenes that really make it feel like fall. According to Visit Arizona, October is the best time to find...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Take the ADOT sign shop, for example. The Sign Shop has been operating for decades and while advances in technology have delivered new machines that have sped up sign making, the overall...

If you’re driving on Phoenix-area freeways Saturday morning, you may see a procession of tow trucks and first responder vehicles, including ADOT’s Incident Response Unit trucks, as part of the Arizona Professional Towing & Recovery...

This is a story about a family of volunteers gathering to clean up litter along a state highway in Sells, Arizona. It’s the simple facts that bring this story to life. State Route 86 stretches a little over 118 miles from Why at the...

If you have not been to AZMVDNow.gov lately, you are missing out on an easy, safe way to get your MVD business done. In fact, surveys of online users over the past seven months show the system keeps getting easier to use for many customers...

“Jeopardy!,” in its current iteration, has been on the air continuously since September 10, 1984. That includes close to 10,000 episodes spanning five decades. So it came as a surprise to us over here at ADOT that our state highways were...

ADOT recently marked one year of major construction for a project expanding capacity on 23 miles of Interstate 17 between Anthem Way and Sunset Point. So it seems an ideal time for our podcast, On the Road with ADOT, to catch up with Laura...

Earth Science Week This week is going to rock! Oct. 8-14 is Earth Science Week, a week to help people better understand Earth sciences, like geology. Did you know that ADOT has a geologist? Jim Lemmon is part of the Bridge Group’s...

AZ511, the ultimate travel companion for Arizona motorists, just got even better. People have become accustomed to using the AZ511 website and app to get information on traffic, construction delays, closures, restrictions and freeway...