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See Adopt a Highway volunteers across Arizona caught in the act on National CleanUp Day 2025.
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. We call this the "Specialty Plate Spotlight" and here are the plates that were featured in September.
We're thrilled to have John Bullen, Assistant Executive Director with the Maricopa Association of Government (MAG), join us for this week's episode of On the Road With ADOT. While ADOT will build the projects, MAG manages the funding and scheduling of the improvements under a Strategic Transportation Plan.

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This creek may help you identify this week's "Where in AZ??" location.
Crews are out putting up new signs celebrating 100 years of Grand Canyon National Park.
We are throwing back to a reconstruction project in the 1970s of one of the state's lesser-used highways.
We've launched a redesigned az511 website and phone line to better give individual drivers the information they need for the routes they drive.
An easy-to-use interactive map now available on our Adopt a Highway website shows which stretches are in need of volunteers.
Thanks to the work of our photographers, ADOT's Flickr page has more than 9,000 pictures of highway projects from the last six years, which have been viewed more than 6 million times.
A swirl of cloud and some mountains are the clues to help you located this week's "Where in AZ??" challenge.
Work zones go hand-in-hand with freeways. We want everyone - including our crews - to get home safely, so here are a few tips on how to navigate construction zones.
Recently ADOT switched to using Google for our email services. While a big switch, it has nothing on two phone projects the agency took on in the late 70s and early 80s.
ADOT is updating the Strategic Highway Safety Plan with a renewed emphasis. You can read more about it.