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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to designate a driver.
07/19/2024

Designating a driver is always an ‘All-Star’ move

If you’re driving on Arizona highways this Friday and Saturday, you may notice some of our overhead signs displaying a traffic safety message related to the WNBA All-Star Game happening in Phoenix. We want to grab people’s attention and...
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07/18/2024

PODCAST: A 51-year ADOT veteran reflects on ADOT's first half century

To mark ADOT's 50th anniversary this month, we're inviting some longtime employees onto our podcast, On the Road With ADOT. The latest episode features Tami Wollaston, who started as a draftsman nearly 51 years ago and currently is a transportation engineering specialist in ADOT’s Roadway Engineering Group.
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07/17/2024

A brief history of three Wickenburg bridges

Three versions of the bridge over the Hassayampa River in Wickenburg have carried traffic for over a century.
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Screenshot from a traffic camera of the parade in 2019.
10/18/2023

National ‘Move Over’ Day 2023

If you’re driving on Phoenix-area freeways Saturday morning, you may see a procession of tow trucks and first responder vehicles, including ADOT’s Incident Response Unit trucks, as part of the Arizona Professional Towing & Recovery...
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Two people standing in front of an Adopt a Highway sign on State Route 86
10/17/2023

Adopt a Highway: On the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Quinns honor family and tradition

This is a story about a family of volunteers gathering to clean up litter along a state highway in Sells, Arizona. It’s the simple facts that bring this story to life. State Route 86 stretches a little over 118 miles from Why at the...
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10/13/2023

Survey says! AZMVDNow website is an ‘Extremely Easy’ way to conduct MVD business

If you have not been to AZMVDNow.gov lately, you are missing out on an easy, safe way to get your MVD business done. In fact, surveys of online users over the past seven months show the system keeps getting easier to use for many customers...
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Two clues from Jeopardy. The categories are on the left and read "Road" and "Same first and last letter geography," from top to bottom. On the right is a picture of the Stack annd a map between Kingman and Winslow from top to bottom.
10/12/2023

ADOT’s on Jeopardy!, baby

“Jeopardy!,” in its current iteration, has been on the air continuously since September 10, 1984. That includes close to 10,000 episodes spanning five decades. So it came as a surprise to us over here at ADOT that our state highways were...
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An interstate under construction.
10/11/2023

A new podcast episode takes you inside ADOT’s I-17 Improvement Project

ADOT recently marked one year of major construction for a project expanding capacity on 23 miles of Interstate 17 between Anthem Way and Sunset Point. So it seems an ideal time for our podcast, On the Road with ADOT, to catch up with Laura...
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ADOT Geologist Jim Lemmon, decked out in safety gear, poses in front of a desert landscape
10/10/2023

Q&A with an ADOT Geologist

Earth Science Week This week is going to rock! Oct. 8-14 is Earth Science Week, a week to help people better understand Earth sciences, like geology. Did you know that ADOT has a geologist? Jim Lemmon is part of the Bridge Group’s...
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The AZ511 website showing weather data.
10/05/2023

AZ511 is now better than ever with real-time weather info

AZ511, the ultimate travel companion for Arizona motorists, just got even better. People have become accustomed to using the AZ511 website and app to get information on traffic, construction delays, closures, restrictions and freeway...
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Interstate 17 after critical pavement repairs were made.
10/04/2023

Critical pavement repairs complete on nearly 300 highway miles

With more projects continuing, ADOT has completed critical pavement repairs on more than 300 miles of state highways since this effort began in June. These projects, detailed at azdot.gov/PavingRepairs, are in areas where pavement was...
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An aerial view of an interstate in a rural area.
10/03/2023

From the Director: I-17 Improvement Project celebrates one-year construction anniversary

Congratulations to our I-17 Improvement Project team, which is celebrating one year since major construction began to add new general purpose lanes and flex lanes along the 23 miles from Anthem Way to Sunset Point. I drive this stretch of I...
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An image of an Arizona license plate atop an animated desert landscape.
10/02/2023

Fake license plates can bring real penalties

If you are the type of person who wants everything on your car, truck or motorcycle to be customized, please remember the license plate on the back must remain authentically Arizonan. We have been made aware of a small number of people...
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