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It’s Work Zone Awareness Week, and we’re taking the opportunity to raise awareness about the things we all can do to keep each other safe in work zones. ADOT crews work all hours of the day to build and maintain Arizona’s highways. I’m...
We know it’s not easy to avoid every distraction when you’re behind the wheel. All the more reason to pay attention to Kelsey Mo, ADOT’s public information officer for safety, as she talks to Doug Nintzel during Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
If you see more motorcycles than usual on highways this weekend in the Phoenix area, it may be because Arizona Bike Week is currently happening at Westworld of Scottsdale. ADOT is not involved in the event itself, but we’re taking the...

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Calling all volunteers! National CleanUp Day is coming and we hope you'll participate through Adopt a Highway.
Five years ago a monsoon storm dumped mud and boulders along US 89A. That's when we got to work.
About 50 Heber-Overgaard community members helped clean a dozen miles of highway shoulders this month.
Going uphill has always been part of driving north in Arizona. And that means steep hills and occasionally rocks, like in this photo from the 1930s.
Our project on the Fourth Street bridge over Interstate 40 is one of those times when things just seem to slide into place.
See for yourself how things are progressing on US 60 at Pinto Creek.
US 93 has a surprising quirk: Its milepost numbers get higher as you head south. Why the highway is like that is a tricky question to answer.
Here's a photo that reminds us why we are happy working in these mechanized times.
More than 20 years ago, ADOT did a careful balancing act of widening State Route 87.
Did you know there's a connection between an Arizona highway and Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot?