Thanksgiving can be a difficult time for seniors in affordable housing facilities, so the MVD Community Connections engagement team decided to share some holiday spirit. Employees at several MVD offices gathered Thanksgiving food and...

You likely have no idea what the contraption in the above photo is called, even though you probably drive past them every day. They're called crash attenuators and they’re simple, efficient and safe devices that can absorb the impact of a...

Searching for a Christmas gift for someone who’s difficult to shop for? In Arizona, you can choose from more than 90 specialty license plates that support a range of diverse causes and interests. You can choose plates supporting your...

With snow already falling in the high country, drivers across Arizona are counting on snowplow operators to clear highways. Operators of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s 200 snowplows have been training since late summer on...

The holiday season is officially in full swing. Thanksgiving is over, leftovers are cleaned out of the fridge and everyone is busy getting ready for the next holiday celebration. After you get the decorations and ugly sweaters out of the...

Since the late 1980s, the APS Electric Light Parade has lit up Central Phoenix every December with festive celebrations of holiday spirit. This year, though, marks the return of ADOT’s presence in the annual tradition. “I’ve been here since...

Keeping excess amounts of water off freeways is always a goal when designing and constructing roadways and crews with the Interstate 10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project are working to ensure that this goal is met. One of the major...

The holiday season is already here, leaving many scrambling to find meaningful gifts for their loved ones that fit within their budget and will arrive quickly. Look no further! We’ve got you covered with these gifts for the Arizonans in...

Giving back is a great way to share the holiday spirit, and that’s just what the MVD Community Connections team is doing. The Apache Junction and Mesa/Gilbert MVD offices, among many others, have collected food and supplies to help provide...

Arizona Governor John C. Phillips hailed it as a feat of “creative genius and daring.” Thousands, including the Winslow High School marching band and governors of Utah, New Mexico and Nevada, made long trips to help Governor Phillips and a host of other dignitaries dedicate it on June 14-15, 1929. Its name inspired awe: Grand Canyon Bridge.

Our On the Road With ADOT podcast catches up with Eric Jorgensen, Director of ADOT’s Motor Vehicle Division. There’s important stuff to catch up on, including technology improvements that continue reducing wait times at MVD offices and the ever-growing number of digital ID options in Arizona.

We don't have five golden rings, but we do have five lonesome ladders in our "12 Days of Christmas: Highway debris edition" video.

Travelers tell us they prefer litter-free highways (go figure) and these are the groups who stepped up between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 to help reverse the ick factor.

In just over three years since ADOT launched AZMVDNow.gov, 4,016,114 Arizonans have activated free accounts to access the primary online portal for MVD customers.

Much like cleaning your home, keeping a highway clean is a never-ending job. But in the world of freeway maintenance, we have a tool more effective than any broom or feather duster: the mighty hydrovac.

After the recent exciting news that a Federal Highway Administration will fund an I-17 wildlife overpass and other improvements to reduce conflicts between vehicles and wildlife, we take a look at other projects ADOT has completed with the same goals in mind.

If you have a question related to Arizona roadways, who you gonna call? The answer is: It depends. Here at ADOT, we’re happy to answer questions about highways, the Motor Vehicle Division and more. But sometimes, people call us for...

It’s been a great year for the ADOT Blog. We published more than 140 articles, covering a wide range of topics from project progress and historical anecdotes to animal rescues and Adopt a Highway updates. Since it’s the end of the year, now’s the perfect time to count down the ten most-read blogs of 2023.

By Kelsey Mo / ADOT Communications Holiday cheer has landed on our overhead signs reminding travelers to drive safely (and end up on Santa’s “nice” list) in the days leading up to Christmas. Historically, more crashes occur in December than...

ADOT worked with the Hopi Tribe and the Federal Highway Administration on a safety project for residents of the Hopi community of Second Mesa along State Route 264 in northeastern Arizona.