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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to drive calmly.
12/25/2025

Drive calmly and jingle all the way home over Christmas

Christmas Day is just around the corner, and while we’re in the final dash to Dec. 25 and buying last-minute presents to put under the tree, we’re taking a moment to remind drivers to practice safe driving over the holidays. If you’re out...
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Blanket made of squares created by ADOT employees.
12/24/2025

Adopt an Angel: ADOT employees give back to colleagues and the community

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our employees, the Adopt an Angel program helped 43 ADOT families this holiday season and fulfilled more than 200 wishes.
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MVD Community Connections Holiday Drive
12/24/2025

MVD employees help brighten the holidays across Arizona

MVD offices pick a charitable organization in their community to help and collect food, toys or whatever supplies that the charitable organization requests to help bring that holiday feeling to families in need.
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07/14/2019

Where in AZ??

We're taking you along for a Sunday drive on another Arizona road for this week's "Where in AZ??" challenge!
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07/12/2019

VIDEO: The logistics of a concrete deck pour

There's a lot of logistics and planning that goes into large products, like the concrete deck pour for the expansion project of I-10 in Casa Grande.
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07/11/2019

Throwback Thursday: Zooming ahead on US 60

Today we're reliving a 1983 milestone for the Superstition Freeway in Mesa.
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Freeway message board carrying message about wildfire prevention
07/10/2019

Seriously, don't park in tall grass

Those signs saying don't park in tall brush or don't drag chains? There's a serious reason for them.
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07/09/2019

Art of Transportation: Snapshot of a snapshot

Today's Art of Transportation photo is a meta-level look at our project on I-17 and Pinnacle Peak.
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Historic photo showing installation of dust storm alert system sign
07/08/2019

Driving Safety Home: Agency has long history of dust storm safety efforts

Building on efforts across the decades, we’re working on a dust detection and warning system on I-10 near the community of Picacho.
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07/07/2019

Where in AZ??

Join the herd and take our "Where in AZ??" challenge!
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Lightning during Monsoon
07/05/2019

The highly improbable story behind a shocking 511 image

If lightning never strikes the same place twice, we're glad an ADOT weather camera was able to catch this one-in-a-million shot of a strike near Holbrook.
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Two people work on the wing of a vintage Grand Canyon airplane parked on an airstrip under a clear sky.
07/03/2019

Aeronautics Group helped make us ADOT, continues serving airports

In 1974, the Arizona Highway Department and the Arizona Aeronautics Department merged to become ADOT. Today our Aeronautics Group continues to serve airports statewide.
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ADOT 45th anniversary logo
07/02/2019

From the Director: 45 years and counting

Since 1974, ADOT has combined functions once handled by the Arizona Highway Department, the motor vehicle services agency and the Arizona Aeronautics Department.
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