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Adopt a Highway
10/01/2025

Volunteers bag 1.8 tons of litter on National CleanUp Day

See Adopt a Highway volunteers across Arizona caught in the act on National CleanUp Day 2025.
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Specialty plates featured in September.
09/30/2025

September 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 September.
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09/26/2025

PODCAST: What's coming to Valley freeways under Prop 479?

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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06/24/2024

After summer vacation get the AZ Travel ID and be ready to travel next summer

Summer is here, schools are out and people are already packing the airports for the annual migration known as summer vacation. While other states travel to warmer locations, here in Arizona we travel to get away from the summer sun and heat...
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State Route 87 Cactus Relocation in July 1971
06/20/2024

From the archives: Cactus relocation in the 1970s

While looking through our photo archives, we found what appeared to be photos of a cactus relocation project on State Route 87 (Beeline Highway) during the summer of 1971. That made us curious to learn more about the practice. Cactus...
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BWC Traffic Split
06/19/2024

Two for the price of one: How the lane splits on Interstate 10 save time and prevent additional closures

Lane splits provide crews the room they need to continue working while also keeping travel lanes open. Lane restrictions on this project take place on weekends and overnight on weeknights, so they impact fewer drivers on the road.
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A worker putting a piece of tire debris in the back of a truck
06/19/2024

A day in the life of an IRU crew member

Working as a member of the ADOT Incident Response Unit, sponsored by GEICO, means showing up to unique incidents on Valley freeways. Not every day is predictable. When crashes occur, IRU members will set up traffic control, using cones or...
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A rendering of an urban freeway.
06/18/2024

Find Your Lane: ADOT to Introduce Collector-Distributor Roads in the I-10 Broadway Curve Area

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.
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A black truck has severe front end damage. A blue sky and green trees are in the background.
06/17/2024

Driving in rural areas? Pay attention for wildlife near highways

Summer brings out wildlife all over Arizona. Paying attention when they are there can save drivers from nasty crashes.
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A signal devide used for timing traffic signals and other training purposes hangs on a wall.
06/15/2024

Geeking out on traffic signals

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...
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A man removes trash and debris from a pump station.
06/14/2024

Spring cleaning for ADOT is dirty work

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.
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A bingo card with 25 spaces. 24 of them contain specialty license plates. The space in the middle contains the ADOT Logo.
06/12/2024

ADOT Kids: License plate “BINGO!” is back

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!
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Wall of dust on freeway
06/10/2024

PODCAST: We're talking safety and technology as monsoon season starts

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.
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