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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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This week's episode of On the Road With ADOT explores what goes into creating annual Arizona Motor Vehicle Crash Facts reports and what Arizonans can learn from them.
This small bridge on State Route 88 (Apache Trail) has been here for quite some time and will likely be here for quite a while more.
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.
It's time to STOP and YIELD to the temptation to learn where highway signs come from. There's ONE WAY to do that, and that's listening to this episode of On the Road With ADOT.
Labor Day weekend usually marks the “unofficial end to summer” with family gatherings and road trips — and if you’re traveling this holiday, we want to remind you to slow down and drive alert. Over the holiday weekend, you may notice some...
ADOT volunteers work along state roadways with friends and family to bag hundreds of pounds of trash. Meet some of the groups dedicated to making a difference and loving what they do.
This episode of On the Road With ADOT looks at where we've been and where we're going on passenger rail. The next step will yield a Service Development Plan addressing things such as stations, frequency of service and the cost of establishing service.
A Toastmasters Club the Arizona Department of Transportation launched in 1975 to help team members hone their public speaking skills today includes not just ADOT but people from other agencies and the community.
Volunteer on the most wonderful day of the year to help us keep Arizona grand.
The Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division helped kids and teachers head back with the cool backpacks and supplies needed for another successful year in the classroom.