ADOT Blog

Jerry Turner, who's been keeping our highways safe during winter weather for nearly 30 years, explains what goes into driving a 30-ton ADOT snowplow and how you can help our plow drivers do their jobs safety and effectively.

The SR 288 Salt River Bridge is a beautiful remote connection to Arizona's transportation history.

Greg Byres, our State Engineer and Deputy Director for Transportation, discusses projects starting, continuing and wrapping up this year in the Phoenix area, southern Arizona and northern Arizona.

For another installment of “how highway cross streets got their names,” we move onto the Loop 101 Pima Freeway. We’ve completed past installments for these freeways: US 60 Superstition Freeway Interstate 17 through Phoenix Loop 101 Price...

Atop a bridge in Page, just a couple miles from the Arizona-Utah state line is a picturesque view or, if you’re afraid of heights, an absolutely terrifying one. We’re talking about the Glen Canyon Dam Bridge, which, when it was built in...

As we prepare to welcome 2025 and ring in the New Year, we thought we’d take one last opportunity in the waning days of 2024 to remind drivers to have a game plan for how to get home safely after the revelry of New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s...

Among the many blogs we've done on Navajo Bridge through the years is one looking at the long battle over the original name Grand Canyon Bridge, given that the bridge spans Marble Canyon and is quite a ways from the Grand Canyon proper. That's the subject of this episode of On the Road With ADOT.

ADOT has more than 100 specialty license plates featuring a range of worthy causes or charities. To boost awareness, we showcase one specialty license plate each week on social media.