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04/28/2026

Arizona’s Route 66 specialty license plate

As Arizona gears up to celebrate 100 years of Route 66, the Arizona Department of Transportation wants to highlight a great way to carry a piece of the so-called Mother Road with you no matter where you’re headed.
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04/26/2026

PODCAST: Your knowledge of Arizona airports is about to take off

On the Road with ADOT takes to the skies while Matthew Munden, manager of ADOT’s Aeronautics Group, talks about his staff’s role in supporting airport development and Federal Aviation Administration funding for a robust statewide network of publicly owned airports.
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Adopt a Highway volunteers with found action figures
04/25/2026

Volunteers unite for Earth Day cleanup

Thank you to volunteers and supporters for making Earth Day 2026 the highest attended cleanup with the most trash picked up during an ADOT-hosted cleanup.
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A black pickup truck drives down a two-lane road entering a yellow and blue-painted underpass with a clearance sign of 14 ft 6 in.
06/28/2019

Flashback Friday: Party planning for the Winslow Underpass dedication

Listing who received invitations and even how officials would obtain lumber to build a speaker stand made for page-one news back in 1936.
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Historic photo from opening of bridge crossing Marble Canyon
06/27/2019

Throwback Thursday: 90 years and a bottle of ginger ale

It was 90 years ago that Arizona dedicated Navajo Bridge spanning the Colorado River at Marble Canyon.
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06/26/2019

Training helps Grand Canyon airport fire crews prepare for anything

The firefighters at Grand Canyon National Park Airport train hard to make sure they are ready for any emergency.
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06/25/2019

Adopt a Highway: Inspiration led to 20 years of keeping Chinle area clean

We love our longtime Adopt a Highway volunteers and hope others will find inspiration in what motivates them, like this group from the Chinle Navajo Land Department.
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06/24/2019

Runaway truck ramps make for a runaway video

We're proud of our YouTube channel and excited that one video has now reached more than 250,000 views.
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06/23/2019

Where in AZ??

It looks like summertime in Arizona in today's "Where in AZ??" photo.
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Black and white photo of a concrete bridge with metal railings crossing over a road, with rocky terrain and sparse vegetation surrounding the structure.
06/21/2019

Form and function meet in old Ligurta Underpass

The Ligurta Underpass is one of Arizona's best examples of clean design in a World War II-era rural bridge.
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06/20/2019

Throwback Thursday: I-10's rejected helicoils

The Deck Park Tunnel has been a planned feature for Interstate 10 through Phoenix since the 1980s. But before that, concepts included something a little more interesting.
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Hydrovac Truck
06/19/2019

ADOT's hydrovac helps keep things flowing

Litter is no joke, neither is the effort necessary to keep our 59 pump stations along Valley freeways clean and maintained. That's where ADOT's hydrovac comes in.
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Tire treads removed from freeways
06/18/2019

As temperatures rise, look out for 'gators' on the highway

As summer temperatures climb, so does the number of "road gators" we see on state highways.
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