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Deck Park Tunnel under construction
08/08/2025

PODCAST: We're marking the I-10 Deck Park Tunnel’s 35th anniversary

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.
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Scam text message
08/03/2025

PODCAST: Protect yourself against scam texts claiming to be from ADOT

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.
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Specialty plates featured in July.
07/30/2025

July recap: Specialty Plate Spotlight

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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Three people stand behind large, blue trash bags filled with litter removed from a rural highway.
05/26/2024

Adopt a Highway: Volunteer takes on littered SR 87 near Mount Ord

Volunteer group leader Arturo Delgado wasted no time heading out for a first cleanup on his newly adopted mile, located on State Route 87 from milepost 222 to 224. The segment is near the western trailhead to Mount Ord (external link) and...
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On the Road With ADOT Logo
05/22/2024

PODCAST: How ADOT is helping expand availability of broadband internet

The latest episode of our podcast, On the Road With ADOT, features Brad Burgess, program administrator in the ADOT Broadband Office. Please spend a few minutes listening to him chat with our host, Doug Nintzel, about how ADOT is helping bring broadband internet to rural Arizona.
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A list of new and renewed Adopt a Highway groups.
05/22/2024

Adopt a Highway: Volunteers and high-fives

ADOT is celebrating 23 new and renewed Adopt a Highway volunteer groups this quarter.
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A motorist handing a blue envelope to a DPS trooper during a demonstration of the program.
05/17/2024

Blue Envelopes available in Arizona for autistic drivers and passengers

The Blue Envelope Program works by allowing an individual to present a blue envelope when contacted by law enforcement to indicate that someone in the vehicle may interact differently during the situation.
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Group in front of Fredonia Port of Entry
05/12/2024

It’s a grand reopening for ADOT’s Fredonia commercial port of entry

ADOT invited the community to celebrate the Fredonia Port of Entry’s reopening. It’s another way ADOT is safely connecting people and empowering Arizona’s economy and the economy.
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Cedar Canyon Bridge 2024
05/11/2024

Reusing arches to widen Cedar Canyon Bridge

Did you know that the Cedar Canyon Bridge was doubled in width by using an existing arch from a different bridge?
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A graphic with an airplane that asks, "WIll your license fly?"
05/10/2024

Get the AZ Travel ID during National Tourism Week and be ready to travel in 2025

This week is National Tourism Week, which celebrates travel and encourages people to explore new places. You might ask: Why is ADOT celebrating Tourism Week? Well, the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division isn’t going...
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Detour map for southbound I-17 closure
05/09/2024

Be ready for I-17 weekend closures in north Phoenix for pavement improvements

Please set aside extra travel time and try to avoid peak driving times when closures are scheduled for a pavement improvement project that’s starting in that area.
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Rock covers a highway after rock blasting.
05/08/2024

Moving Mountains: Rock blasting now complete for the I-17 Improvement Project

If your summer road trip will take you along Interstate 17 north of the Phoenix metro area, you’ll notice that the landscape looks a lot different these days. Entire sections of the mountainsides have been removed through controlled rock...
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Work tucks block a highway.
05/07/2024

Massive new boom lift lets workers soar to new heights

The Titan S60 boom lift replaces older lifts that weren’t as maneuverable and couldn’t reach the heights that the new MEC Titan S260 can.
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