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The Arizona Department of Transportation is taking part in Route 66 centennial celebrations and our 1959 Chevy Apache pickup truck was a crowd favorite at the recent Ash Fork Heritage Day, which also celebrated the centennial.
Laura Douglas, our lead communicator on the upcoming State Route 347 improvement project, talks with guest host Marcy McMacken about much-anticipated changes set to occur on SR 347, including the addition of a third travel lane in each direction.
Read about safety precautions for Adopt a Highway volunteers and anyone planning to enjoy the Arizona outdoors this summer.

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Some saguaros along the South Mountain Freeway are cloaked in black. Today's blog explains why.
Monsoon Awareness Week starts next week and ADOT is ready for when the dust swirls.
The Gila River is notoriously hard to build a bridge across. That's what made this extra-long bridge at Bylas so extraordinary.
A widening project is underway along Loop 303 along with preparations a connection to the city of Peoria’s Jomax Parkway.
We do a lot to prevent and clean up graffiti and other acts of vandalism, but what do you do when the vandal is a little more extraordinary?
Mattresses, kayaks, grills, even Christmas trees. We've seen it all on Arizona highways. But items left on our roadways aren't only ugly, they are dangerous.
We want your help planning highway projects. The deadline to comment on our tentative Five-Year Plan ends tomorrow!
This long-exposure photo sums up how we are about to zip into the future with the Broadway Curve project.
Did you know ADOT invested half a billion dollars in pavement preservation over the last five years? And we don't plan on slowing down anytime soon.
These families remember the loved ones they've lost all year long by keeping their small part of Arizona grand and litter-free.