ADOT Blog

It's the time of the year when everyone has a bit of advice for seniors wrapping up a high school or college career. This year is a little different, but we still wanted to give what advice we could, with a little transportation safety twist.

One Show Low group has a long history of community service and it includes keeping our state beautiful with the Adopt a Highway program.

In 1909 the Territory of Arizona proposed building a north-south highway between Prescott and Phoenix. A year later, construction started in earnest. We look back at this territorial road 110 years later.

“Historians write the history, but balladeers bring it to life.” So says Dolan Ellis, Arizona’s official state balladeer, who has spent more than 60 years bringing Arizona to life through song. Ellis performed a few numbers and answered...

Today we are throwing back to an employee modeling a brand-new highway sign from our impressive sign shop.

It's that time again! Time for you to vote for your favorite in our fourth annual Safety Message Contest. Which entry would you like to see on our overhead freeway boards?

Ever driven through a construction zone and not seen anyone working? Well, there could be a few reasons for that, but most of the time is because crews are working when there is less traffic on the highway.

Did you know we have 4,824 bridges along state highways? And we recently got some good news about them.

Work to build a new, larger Interstate 17 bridge over Central Avenue south of downtown Phoenix is now underway as ADOT and partner agencies look ahead to improvements beyond the freeway itself. But the progress also means drivers should...

Today we are taking a look at batch plants and how they help projects be more efficient and cost effective.