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10/12/2025

PODCAST: Our director explains Arizona's new safe-driving campaign

Spend a few minutes with ADOT Director Jennifer Toth and host Doug Nintzel and we hope you'll take the following to heart: Choosing not to speed, choosing not to drive impaired, choosing to wear a seat belt and making other simple choices will result in fewer life-altering crashes on all Arizona roadways.
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Make Bullhead Better volunteers
10/09/2025

Tomorrow’s leaders make a positive difference in Fort Mohave

Motivated to improve the community, a civic group and 35 students led a cleanup of State Route 95 in Fort Mohave.
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A digital message board on the highway encouraging drivers to use their blinkers
10/08/2025

Give me an assist and use your blinker

As the Phoenix Mercury prepares to play in their first home game of the 2025 WNBA Finals, we want to remind motorists to give an assist to their highway teammates and use their blinkers while they’re driving to help them safely get to and...
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A list of new or renewed Adopt a Highway groups.
03/21/2025

Adopt a Highway: Inspiring minds talk on trash

What inspires you to get involved in cleaning up highway trash? That is a question recently answered by Altar Valley Conservation Alliance representative and Adopt a Highway volunteer Julia Guglielmo. “It brings everyone together no matter...
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Interstate 8 from the 1970s between Casa Grande and Gila Bend.
03/19/2025

The history of Interstate 8

Spanning more than 350 miles from its westernmost point in San Diego to its eastern terminus at the Interstate 10 junction in Casa Grande, Interstate 8 is a primary route for travel in the Southwest. Here’s the history of how the highway...
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Setting girder for I-40 bridge
03/17/2025

All in a night’s work: Placing bridge girders along I-40 in Kingman

Progress along the Interstate 40/US 93 interchange project in Kingman sometimes can be apparent at the end of each day’s work, but in some cases, it’s quite visible even at night.
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03/16/2025

PODCAST: ADOT International focuses on safe, efficient flow of commerce

Mark Sanders, featured in this week's episode of On the Road With ADOT, is involved in a wide variety of efforts to promote safe commercial travel across the U.S.-Mexico border and safe travel for Arizonans visiting Sonora.
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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to designate a driver.
03/15/2025

St. Patrick’s Day essentials: 4-leaf clovers, leprechauns & safe driving decisions

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches and Arizonans get ready to celebrate decked out in green, we want to remind drivers that practicing safe driving habits, and not leaving it up to Lady Luck, are important to remember. If you drive on state...
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The pi symbol on top of a photo of a highway in rural Arizona.
03/14/2025

Using highway signs to calculate pi to the 50th digit

Celebrate Pi Day with us!
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Automated Flagging Assistance Device
03/10/2025

Device helps keep flaggers safer from collisions

The men and women directing traffic on rural highways in work zones are on a constant lookout for inattentive and reckless drivers.
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A basketball and a baseball.
03/09/2025

Get out of the line and safely on the road to avoid madness this March

March can be a crazy month in Arizona. College basketball tournaments start (hopefully your team is one of the Cinderella stories), and Major League Baseball is back in the Valley for spring training. Then there’s spring break for students...
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03/07/2025

PODCAST: ADOT Insurance Recovery protects your investment in state highways

Learn how the Insurance Recovery Team processes thousands of claims each year to recover millions of dollars when incidents damage state highways.
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An animated image of a person kicking up litter near a rural highway.
03/07/2025

Adopt a Highway: Promoting human kindness

You may have had an opportunity to drive past a group of Adopt a Highway volunteers bagging trash or participating in a cleanup. Here is a friendly and fair warning that if this has not yet happened to you, my experience shows that ADOT...
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