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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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For chip seal work, like what our crews just completed on State Route 88, a tack coat is the glue that holds it all together.
One way ADOT helps owners of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises is through conferences such as the ADOT DBE and Small Business Conference occurring this week.
A recent bridge strike in the East Valley is a good reminder about why it's always important to make sure whatever you're hauling is completely secured.
It's a rainbow of color in our "Where in AZ??" challenge this week.
It took a century to turn the old, sleepy Black Canyon stagecoach route into the super highway we know as Interstate 17.
It was a harrowing two hours for his owner after little George slipped out at ADOT's Burnt Well Rest Area. But all ended well.
A new state law allows homeless vets to get a driver license or ID card for free, easing the path out of poverty and off the street.
Two-way traffic is being restored in stages along Liberty Lane, where crews are relocating a large waterline from the path of the South Mountain Freeway in Ahwatukee.
Another Sunday, another beautiful Arizona scene for our "Where in AZ??" challenge!
Ten years ago, we started ADOT's popular Twitter account: @ArizonaDOT. Join us as we look over the past decade.