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ADOT's Karl Lopez stands in front of his emergency response truck

10/06/2025

ADOT worker aids flood rescue: 'That kid needed to get to the hospital ASAP'

A news account reported how a severely injured teen ultimately got to a Phoenix hospital for treatment, due in part to help from an ADOT employee who wasn’t identified. Today, we’re sharing more about that employee and his role in the rescue amid flooding in Globe.

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10/05/2025

PODCAST: Traffic engineering's role in safely connecting Arizonans

Where do speed limits come from? How are highways engineered, signed, striped, etc., to maximize safety? To explain these and other aspects of state highways, we're pleased to have State Traffic Engineer Kerry Wilcoxon as this week's On the Road With ADOT guest.

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10/01/2025

Volunteers bag 1.8 tons of litter on National CleanUp Day

See Adopt a Highway volunteers across Arizona caught in the act on National CleanUp Day 2025.

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From the Archives: US 89

Arizona Transportation History reports gives a look at the history of US 89.

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02/17/2016

ADOT project creating more reliable link to key Yuma County employer

Residents will have a more reliable link with Yuma County’s largest employer, Yuma Proving Ground, thanks to a 600-foot bridge ADOT is building across a flood-prone section of US 95.

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02/11/2016

ADOT tries out a different method for merging

The zipper merge is being piloted by ADOT to reduce construction travel delays on I-10, east of Tucson.

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02/10/2016

See how more people are avoiding lines at MVD

Out of 3.7 million vehicle registration renewals that were completed in Arizona during 2015, a whopping 60.2 percent of them – roughly 2.2 million – were handled online through ServiceArizona.com.

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02/04/2016

MVD assists veterans during 2016 StandDown

A number of agencies, including ADOT’s Motor Vehicle Division, helped homeless and at-risk veterans during an annual event called the Maricopa County StandDown.

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02/03/2016

Busy snowplow drivers kept roads open during recent storm

When Arizona’s latest winter storm hit Sunday evening, ADOT crews went into high gear.

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01/27/2016

Pup rescued from SR 51 has a good home in her future

A little dog that made her way onto SR 51 during Monday evening’s rush hour and miraculously avoided being hit by traffic now has a good home in her future.

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