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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to drive calmly.

12/25/2025

Drive calmly and jingle all the way home over Christmas

Christmas Day is just around the corner, and while we’re in the final dash to Dec. 25 and buying last-minute presents to put under the tree, we’re taking a moment to remind drivers to practice safe driving over the holidays. If you’re out...

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Blanket made of squares created by ADOT employees.

12/24/2025

Adopt an Angel: ADOT employees give back to colleagues and the community

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our employees, the Adopt an Angel program helped 43 ADOT families this holiday season and fulfilled more than 200 wishes.

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12/24/2025

MVD employees help brighten the holidays across Arizona

MVD offices pick a charitable organization in their community to help and collect food, toys or whatever supplies that the charitable organization requests to help bring that holiday feeling to families in need.

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Get ready for winter: First highways close in November

Winter is ready to pounce, which means ADOT is getting ready to close the first of five highways for the season.

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11/10/2021

Happy Birthday, Historic Route 66

Historic Route 66 turns 95 on Nov. 11.

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11/08/2021

He keeps 1,800 highway lights and 155 traffic signals running

Trevor Eltringham enjoys serving the motoring public by, literally, keeping highway lights on and traffic signals running.

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11/04/2021

Her nightmare drive home was saved by ADOT, DPS angels

Read about how ADOT and DPS helped a motorist get safely home.

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11/03/2021

Emergency pull off lanes serve as safety retreats along the Broadway Curve Improvement Project area

Crews sweep a newly created emergency pull off during a recent full freeway closure. We’ve seen preconstruction work for the Broadway Curve Improvement Project since the spring, on and around Interstate 10, from the Loop 202 (Santan/South...

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11/02/2021

The bridge too tough to die - an appreciation

The old Pinto Creek Bridge was scheduled for demolition last week, but it wasn't going down without a fight.

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Two pyramids made with candy and toothpicks

11/01/2021

Hey ADOT Kids! Take the candy-toothpick building challenge!

Engineering is the creative use of science and math to design or make things to solve a problem. Engineers, like the ones we have at ADOT, design, build and test things. Do you want to give this fun build-and-test activity a try — like an...

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