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See Adopt a Highway volunteers across Arizona caught in the act on National CleanUp Day 2025.
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.
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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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.
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...
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.
ADOT is celebrating 23 new and renewed Adopt a Highway volunteer groups this quarter.
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.
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.
Did you know that the Cedar Canyon Bridge was doubled in width by using an existing arch from a different bridge?