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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to drive safe.
12/14/2025

Celebrate eight days of lights and safe driving

The holiday season is in full swing and with people gathering with family and friends to celebrate meals, traditions and more, we want to make sure you get safely to and from your destination. To that end, ADOT will be displaying several...
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12/13/2025

PODCAST: We’re talking about big Phoenix-area projects for 2026

Randy Everett, ADOT Central District Administrator, previews improvements on tap for the coming year, including freeway-to-freeway ramps at Loop 303 and I-17 and extending Loop 303 southward in the West Valley.
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Arizona Highways magazine holiday cover from the 1950s
12/07/2025

PODCAST: Arizona Highways magazine celebrates its centennial, the holidays and more

Editor Robert Stieve visits with host Doug Nintzel about Arizona Highways magazine's ongoing centennial celebration, how the holiday edition has become annual treasure and even how the magazine is looking toward next year's Route 66 centennial.
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Two clues from Jeopardy. The categories are on the left and read "Road" and "Same first and last letter geography," from top to bottom. On the right is a picture of the Stack annd a map between Kingman and Winslow from top to bottom.
10/12/2023

ADOT’s on Jeopardy!, baby

“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...
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An interstate under construction.
10/11/2023

A new podcast episode takes you inside ADOT’s I-17 Improvement Project

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...
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ADOT Geologist Jim Lemmon, decked out in safety gear, poses in front of a desert landscape
10/10/2023

Q&A with an ADOT Geologist

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...
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The AZ511 website showing weather data.
10/05/2023

AZ511 is now better than ever with real-time weather info

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...
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Interstate 17 after critical pavement repairs were made.
10/04/2023

Critical pavement repairs complete on nearly 300 highway miles

With more projects continuing, ADOT has completed critical pavement repairs on more than 300 miles of state highways since this effort began in June. These projects, detailed at azdot.gov/PavingRepairs, are in areas where pavement was...
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An aerial view of an interstate in a rural area.
10/03/2023

From the Director: I-17 Improvement Project celebrates one-year construction anniversary

Congratulations to our I-17 Improvement Project team, which is celebrating one year since major construction began to add new general purpose lanes and flex lanes along the 23 miles from Anthem Way to Sunset Point. I drive this stretch of I...
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An image of an Arizona license plate atop an animated desert landscape.
10/02/2023

Fake license plates can bring real penalties

If you are the type of person who wants everything on your car, truck or motorcycle to be customized, please remember the license plate on the back must remain authentically Arizonan. We have been made aware of a small number of people...
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Four Arizona speciality plates. From top left: Conserving Wildlife, Friends of Eight, Arizona State University and a State of Good Character
09/29/2023

September recap: Specialty Plate Spotlight

License plates can be more than a means of identifying a vehicle. Much like bumper stickers or the clothes we wear, specialty plates can an expression of our values and beliefs or a nod to our hobbies. In Arizona we have more than 90...
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Progress on the I-17 Improvement Project
09/28/2023

I-17 Improvement Project taking shape one year into major construction

Progress is happening and drivers are noticing. If you’ve recently driven along Interstate 17 north of the Phoenix metro area, you’ve seen the flurry of construction activity, along with the noticeable changes to this well-traveled highway...
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A group of people are gathered around a heavy-duty snowblower and receiving training on how to use the snowblower.
09/25/2023

ADOT team members are already getting ready for winter

While summer weather lingers for desert dwellers, ADOT team members are already gearing up for winter. And this season, that means branching out beyond the existing fleet of 200 or so snowplows as ADOT prepares to unveil two new high...
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