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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 understand the temptation, but the highway shoulder is NOT a safe place to pull over and play in the snow.
Crews have laid the first new pavement for the South Mountain Freeway.
What do residents think about the new Bell Road bridge at Grand Avenue (US 60)? An ADOT video has their perspectives.
Today’s blog, for our Spanish-speaking audience, talks about newly designated Safety Corridors.
With “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” premiering this week, motorists on Arizona’s highways will see Star Wars-themed safety messages on overhead signs.
ADOT and city of Phoenix engineers worked together to improve traffic signal timing and save drivers thousands of hours of travel time.
There are three new options coming to the dozens of specialty plates available through our Motor Vehicle Division.
New signs along two stretches of highway designate Safety Corridors. See our video explaining this effort.
Learn about a mystery involving the I-17 Mystery Tree, which is once again decked out for the holidays.
While ADOT works to keep our roads drivable and safe all season, the decisions everyone else makes are equally important.