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This episode of On the Road With ADOT is celebrating a milestone anniversary Sunday, Aug. 10, for the Deck Park Tunnel by talking with someone who helped with the Herculean efforts needed to complete the tunnel and Interstate 10's Final Mile.
In this 15-minute episode of On the Road With ADOT, Capt. Brian Eckenboy with ADOT's Office of Inspector General and Fraud Hotline explains how texts you've seen from scammers claiming to be ADOT work alongside other scams and what you need to know to protect yourself.
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 July.

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Collector-Distributor (CD) roads along I-10 in both directions between 40th Street and Baseline Road are coming this summer in the I-10 Broadway Curve area.
Summer brings out wildlife all over Arizona. Paying attention when they are there can save drivers from nasty crashes.
If you want to know way too much about traffic signals, you’ve come to the right place. We’re about to go behind the scenes when an interchange signal system goes into “flash mode” – that’s traffic industry lingo for flashing red lights...
Because too many people can’t be bothered to not litter, ADOT cleans each of the pump stations in the metro Phoenix area at an annual cost of about $1 million.
There are more than 100 different specialty plates in Arizona that you can look for on the roads everyday. Take this NEW bingo card with you on your family roadtrips!
The latest episode of our podcast, On the Road With ADOT, features Kelsey Mo, a public information officer who specializes in safety topics, and Garin Groff, a public information officer who does interviews aplenty about the I-10 dust detection system.
Monsoon Awareness Week is June 9-15 this year. It provides the Arizona Department of Transportation the opportunity to remind drivers of the dangers associated with our monsoon storms, especially dust storms. Our “Pull Aside, Stay Alive” safety campaign provides drivers with the tools to stay safe, if you are ever near or caught in a dust storm.
A broken wooden pallet. A couch missing its cushions. A singular ladder. A gray ottoman. These are just a few of the unsecured items that have fallen off vehicles and onto Arizona’s highways that ADOT crews have collected within the last...
Together, 27 ADOT Motor Vehicle Division locations collected nearly 450 pounds of aluminum can tabs as part of a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Charities in Arizona.
Quite a few of us were pleased to see a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff praising an improvement that started when someone reached out to ADOT Constituent Services.