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04/01/2026

Put away the phone during Distracted Driving Awareness Month

It’s a reflex for most of us to pick up our phones when we hear the familiar dinging sound that lets us know we have a new text to read. You might think it’s not that serious to look down at your phone and respond to a text while you’re...

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03/29/2026

PODCAST: Spring has projects ramping up in Northern Arizona

In this episode of On the Road With ADOT, Jason Stephens of ADOT's Community Relations team has an update on the many projects resuming and starting now that warmer weather has returned to Northern Arizona.

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ASU student checks irrigation along highway.

03/23/2026

ADOT partnership with ASU aims to optimize landscape water use

We're highlighting an ASU News article features a partnership that’s helping ADOT learn how to optimize water use in freeway landscaping. The ADOT Urban Freeway Landscape Water Use Efficiency Project nvolves graduate students who are part of ASU’s Arizona Water Innovation Initiative

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ADOT's Twitter account offers more than just trip tips

On Twitter, ADOT provides real-time traffic conditions to help the traveling public safely and swiftly navigate Arizona’s highways.

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Technical drawing showing slope mine benching detail with perspective and section views, labeled annotations, contour lines, and construction notes, titled DETAIL ES8.

02/25/2015

Transportation Defined: Minibenches, a closer look

Dirt has been a pretty popular topic for us. Today, we want to explain why we bench it. More specifically, why we minibench it.

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Three workers in orange jackets inspect a road severely damaged and lifted by a landslide in a rocky area.

02/24/2015

Engineers Week celebrates engineering contributions

Saying that engineers are an important part of ADOT is really kind of an understatement.

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02/20/2015

US 89 landslide: Final phase of the repair

The landslide-damaged stretch of US 89 has come a long way in the past two years...

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A crane and construction scaffolding are positioned near an overpass under repair, with traffic cones blocking part of the road.

02/12/2015

Key ADOT projects move forward this year in Phoenix, Tucson and statewide

We’re only a month in, but 2015 is already looking like it’ll be a big year for ADOT.

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02/11/2015

ADOT continues progress on US 89 landslide repair

After six months of extensive earthwork on the US 89 landslide repair project south of Page, ADOT is moving on to the final phase of the project to restore the highway.

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Workers in safety gear pour and spread concrete into a large hole at a construction site with machinery nearby.

02/10/2015

Crews repair, repave sinkhole on SR 89A

State Route 89A in the Oak Creek Canyon switchbacks (mileposts 387-390) was fully reopened this afternoon after crews repaired a sinkhole that had been discovered in the northbound lane on Saturday.

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A paved, empty highway curves through a desert landscape with rocky hills, dry vegetation, and scattered boulders under a partly cloudy sky.

02/04/2015

Work on a new climbing lane along SR 95 is underway

ADOT has begun construction of a northbound climbing lane on SR 95 to improve traffic flow through the Mohave Mountains region, about 10 miles north of Lake Havasu City (mileposts 190-195).

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