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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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Soil testing is a vital part of making sure roads will last.
An update on the I-10 widening project in Tucson.
In our latest podcast, host Doug Nintzel talks with Paul Patane, director of the Multimodal Planning Division. They discuss the ins and outs of ADOT's Tentative Five-Year Construction Program.
That tell-tale ding and buzz of your phone catches your attention. It’ll just take a few seconds to read and send a reply, you might think as you’re driving. Or perhaps you’re running late to an appointment and so you’re scarfing down a...
Volunteers filled more than 15,000 bags, with trash deposited onto roadways in 2023. That is about 103 tons of plastic water bottles, cigarette butts, beer cans, construction trash and other unsecured items lost or tossed from vehicles.
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and it’s a great time to remind everyone to not drive distracted.
Motorists can drive support to their favorite charitable cause by choosing to purchase a specialty license plate from the Arizona Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Division.
We post quite frequently about our Adopt a Highway program on our social media pages, so I wanted to get a first-hand experience of what the process is like and share it for anyone who might be curious. First, someone must choose a section...
Over the two days, the MVD team helped nearly 350 people with services including driver license duplicates, motor vehicle records, renewals and reinstatements.
Beginning May 7, 2025, you will need a federally compliant credential like the Arizona Travel ID to get past TSA checkpoints at airports for domestic flights. Without the Arizona Travel ID or other form of federally compliant identification such as a valid U.S. passport, you risk missing your flight because the standard driver license will not be accepted by TSA.