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ASU student checks irrigation along highway.
03/23/2026

ADOT partnership with ASU aims to optimize landscape water use

We're highlighting an ASU News article features a partnership that’s helping ADOT learn how to optimize water use in freeway landscaping. The ADOT Urban Freeway Landscape Water Use Efficiency Project nvolves graduate students who are part of ASU’s Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
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Volunteer placing trash in ADOT bag
03/17/2026

Get involved: Join us for an Earth Day litter clean-up

Adopt a Highway volunteer groups and others are invited to help tidy up along state highways for Earth Day. Whether you are a seasoned volunteer or just looking to make a difference, your participation makes a measurable impact toward reducing roadside litter.
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Sprayer applies fog seal to highway.
03/15/2026

PODCAST: One key way that ADOT extends the life of highway pavement

This week’s episode of On the Road With ADOT features two of our many team members involved in preserving Arizona’s vast investment in state highways and the use of fog seals to extend pavement life.
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Graphic that reads Move Over AZ
10/14/2022

Move Over: It’s the law

Move Over. Besides being the law in Arizona, it’s a simple gesture to provide a safe space for law enforcement, medical personnel, emergency responders and tow truck operators to render aid to motorists on the side of the road. By moving over, you are saving lives.
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A yellow Caterpillar road grader working on a dirt road under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
10/12/2022

Partnerships help produce new snow chain pull-out, SR 169 improvements

A new pull-out area on eastbound I-40 near Ash Fork is nearing completion that will allow commercial truckers to put snow chains on their semis.
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I-10 pedestrian bridge rendering
10/11/2022

Cross that bridge when you come to it

Construction is underway on the future multiuse bridge at Alameda Drive, which will connect both ends of street over I-10 in Phoenix and Tempe.
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Glendale Motor Vehicle Division road test area
10/05/2022

Changes to the MVD road test: What to expect

Changes to the new driver road test are here and we have the details!
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10/03/2022

Adopt a Highway: Volunteers collect 2.3 tons of litter in second largest statewide event

On National CleanUp Day on Sept. 17, 39 volunteer groups and 215 individual volunteers in 11 counties in Arizona filled 335 litter bags and gathered larger debris into piles for disposal totalling 2.3 tons.
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Black and white historic image of an early Broadway Curve
09/29/2022

Throwback Thursday: That unmistakable Curve

The year is 1966 and the Broadway Curve won't open for two more years.
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Black and White historic photo of Globe
09/22/2022

Throwback Thursday: Globe trekkin'

In 1973, the Globe movie theatre is showing a film that modern audiences know better as a slick sci-fi television series.
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09/20/2022

Child seats over the years: From DIY to national safety standards

A look at child safety seats through the years.
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09/19/2022

Ensure your kids are buckled up for Child Passenger Safety Week

Child safety seats and seat belts not only save lives and increase safety for little ones, but child safety seats are required by Arizona law. Children younger than 8 years old and shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches, must be properly secured in a safety or booster seat.
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09/15/2022

Adopt a Highway: Celebrating volunteers on social media

Celebrate Adopt a Highway with frames and GIFs on your social media.
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