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09/15/2026

Adopt a Highway: Route 66 Centennial Cleanup

Join us in the great outdoors for a special cleanup along Arizona’s legendary Route 66, also known as the Mother Road, Main Street of America and the Will Rogers Highway.

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09/14/2026

Time to update your MVD photo

Beginning September 12, Arizona law, A.R.S. 28-3173, adjusts the time frame to update your MVD photo from 12 years to 16 years. Those with a standard driver license or ID and an old photo may receive a letter in the mail explaining it is time to update your photo.

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09/13/2026

PODCAST: Learn more about the Loop 101/I-10 interchange improvement project in the West Valley

It’s still in the early stages, but the project to add improvements around the interchange connecting I-10 and Loop 101 in the Phoenix area’s West Valley is advancing. Find out more as Resident Engineer Cliff Oltman provides details about bridge construction and other project work.

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ADOT's Twitter account offers more than just trip tips

On Twitter, ADOT provides real-time traffic conditions to help the traveling public safely and swiftly navigate Arizona’s highways.

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Technical drawing showing slope mine benching detail with perspective and section views, labeled annotations, contour lines, and construction notes, titled DETAIL ES8.

02/25/2015

Transportation Defined: Minibenches, a closer look

Dirt has been a pretty popular topic for us. Today, we want to explain why we bench it. More specifically, why we minibench it.

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Three workers in orange jackets inspect a road severely damaged and lifted by a landslide in a rocky area.

02/24/2015

Engineers Week celebrates engineering contributions

Saying that engineers are an important part of ADOT is really kind of an understatement.

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02/20/2015

US 89 landslide: Final phase of the repair

The landslide-damaged stretch of US 89 has come a long way in the past two years...

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A crane and construction scaffolding are positioned near an overpass under repair, with traffic cones blocking part of the road.

02/12/2015

Key ADOT projects move forward this year in Phoenix, Tucson and statewide

We’re only a month in, but 2015 is already looking like it’ll be a big year for ADOT.

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02/11/2015

ADOT continues progress on US 89 landslide repair

After six months of extensive earthwork on the US 89 landslide repair project south of Page, ADOT is moving on to the final phase of the project to restore the highway.

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Workers in safety gear pour and spread concrete into a large hole at a construction site with machinery nearby.

02/10/2015

Crews repair, repave sinkhole on SR 89A

State Route 89A in the Oak Creek Canyon switchbacks (mileposts 387-390) was fully reopened this afternoon after crews repaired a sinkhole that had been discovered in the northbound lane on Saturday.

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A paved, empty highway curves through a desert landscape with rocky hills, dry vegetation, and scattered boulders under a partly cloudy sky.

02/04/2015

Work on a new climbing lane along SR 95 is underway

ADOT has begun construction of a northbound climbing lane on SR 95 to improve traffic flow through the Mohave Mountains region, about 10 miles north of Lake Havasu City (mileposts 190-195).

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