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This week's episode of On the Road With ADOT focuses on projects in Northwestern Arizona, including those improving US 93 between the Phoenix area and Las Vegas.
Hell Canyon Bridge was and is one of the largest spans in Arizona.
Volunteers are so important to the beauty of Arizona's roadways. Join us in thanking these highway adopters.

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We are four months into our project at I-10 and Ruthrauff. Check out this video of the work!
It's a holiday weekend, but we're still asking you to put your thinking cap on!
As part of the widening project, the L-101 Price freeway will have its concrete pavement diamond ground.
As summer temperatures shoot upward, so do the number of brush fires alongside state highways. Here's what you can do to help stop wildfires.
It's the time of the year when everyone has a bit of advice for seniors wrapping up a high school or college career. This year is a little different, but we still wanted to give what advice we could, with a little transportation safety twist.
One Show Low group has a long history of community service and it includes keeping our state beautiful with the Adopt a Highway program.
In 1909 the Territory of Arizona proposed building a north-south highway between Prescott and Phoenix. A year later, construction started in earnest. We look back at this territorial road 110 years later.
How long is the South Mountain Freeway? How wide are the lanes? How did we set the speed limit? ADOT Kids asked, and we answer. Plus we share everyone's freeway designs.
“Historians write the history, but balladeers bring it to life.” So says Dolan Ellis, Arizona’s official state balladeer, who has spent more than 60 years bringing Arizona to life through song. Ellis performed a few numbers and answered...