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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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Did you hear the news? ADOT named the Cottonwood Municipal Airport as the 2022 Arizona Airport of the Year!
This archived photo shows the Red Mountain Freeway in its development.
Share your thoughts about how ADOT should plan for the future. Participate in the Long-Range Transportation Plan survey through Dec. 21.
Thank you to volunteers who help keep our villages and not-so-pointy mountains litter-free.
Today, we throw it back to a Red Mountain Freeway in progress.
Yes, "shoofly" is a transportation term, too.
We hear about these places all the time. But how did they get their names?
It’s Crash Responder Safety Week and, here at ADOT, we’re spotlighting a team that responds to incidents and help improve safety by getting traffic moving sooner after crashes and other incidents occur. We are, of course, referring to our...
Asphalt millings, concrete, metal and steel are the most common types of construction waste; but the Broadway Curve project team has future plans for all of them.