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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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We're counting down some of the biggest news for Arizona motorists in our Friday Five blog.
Planning to hit the road this spring or summer? Make sure you do you homework by visiting az511.gov to learn about any projects and restrictions in Arizona's high country.
Completed 60 years ago, Mule Pass Tunnel cost the state $2 million. That's the equivalent of $17.2 million today.
Work zone safety means something extra to us at ADOT.
Adopt a Highway volunteers made big splash in 2017, but we could use even more help.
Our "Where in AZ??" challenge features a more unusual roadside attraction.
As temperatures begin to rise, expect to look twice for motorcycles on the road.
Boy, the cars took up more space. Men had crew cuts instead of fades. Birch Avenue just went one way. Those were the days!
In a major milestone, ADOT completes first bridge spanning the future Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway.
ADOT is repaving or rebuilding more than 180 miles of Arizona's highways starting in April.