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The Arizona Department of Transportation is taking part in Route 66 centennial celebrations and our 1959 Chevy Apache pickup truck was a crowd favorite at the recent Ash Fork Heritage Day, which also celebrated the centennial.
Laura Douglas, our lead communicator on the upcoming State Route 347 improvement project, talks with guest host Marcy McMacken about much-anticipated changes set to occur on SR 347, including the addition of a third travel lane in each direction.
Read about safety precautions for Adopt a Highway volunteers and anyone planning to enjoy the Arizona outdoors this summer.

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The Phoenix New Times has named us the Best Government Agency Twitter for 2019. The accolades are nice, but it shows we are doing our best to let people know what's happening on state highways.
For months drivers in Scottsdale have seen the work going on to widen the Loop 101 from the ground level. But we took our drone out to give everyone a higher view of this important project.
ADOT is joining Governor Doug Ducey to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
National Teen Driver Safety Week is approaching and our state engineer has some tips for families to help keep that new driver safe on the road.
Adopt a Highway volunteers went all out for National CleanUp Day!
A year before the Oct. 1, 2020 deadline, ADOT Director John Halikowski talks about the steps to get a Travel ID to make sure Arizona residents are good to fly.
Flooding from the hurricane remnants that lashed Arizona last week, exacerbated by tens of thousands of acres of high desert burned in the Woodbury Fire, caused extensive damage along State Route 88 east of the Valley. As of today, an...
US 60 in Gold Canyon is cleaned by Bea Sanchez and her family in honor of her family.
We are thinking a lot about I-17 today and that has us reminiscing about this highway's important past.
When is ADOT going to widen Interstate 10 as you travel from Phoenix toward Casa Grande? What is ADOT doing to have an alternate route between Phoenix and Tucson? What is to be done with traffic congestion at the Broadway Curve? I have...