It’s that time of year when all of us are asked what we’re grateful for. And if you asked us, we’d say we’re thankful for motorists who practice safe driving. 

Map of future I-40 interchange at Rancho Santa Fe Parkway
The Arizona Department of Transportation will begin work in early December along Interstate 40 to construct a new interchange that will in turn connect with a new roadway serving the east Kingman area

ADOT employee Rich Dimaio was on-duty, traveling Phoenix-area highways, when a call came out for a dog on the freeway. 

Dimaio, who is a member of ADOT’s incident Response Unit, sponsored by GEICO, responded to the call on I-10 eastbound near 40th Street where Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers had already surrounded the dog in the median. 

We're all tired of junk mail filling our mailboxes. It is annoying to have to sit and sort through paper ads, promotional fliers and blah, blah, blah. 

What could be better than learning about one ADOT project improving the Loop 101 in the Phoenix area? That would be learning about TWO projects improving Loop 101. 
Arizona Transportation Institute logo
A new research partnership between the Arizona Department of Transportation and the state’s three public universities will help keep ADOT at the forefront of innovation, nurture a new generation of

We move onto the Loop 101 Price Freeway for yet another installment of “How highway cross streets got their names.”

Loop 101 first opened in Glendale in 1988 and it wasn’t until 14 years later and 17 different sections, the entire 61-mile freeway was completed.

nogales port its installation map

Overview

The Arizona Department of Transportation began a project in April 2025 to install and connect Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) devices to the high-speed fiber optics cable along Interstate 19 starting at milepost 2, near the Nogales Port of Entry to just south of Interstate 10

New roundabout on US 93 at Vulture Mine Road
ADOT has transformed 5 miles of US 93 from two lanes to four-lane divided highway in Wickenburg. It's part of a long-term vision to transform the entire 200-mile section of US 93 from Wickenburg to

Photo Courtesy: Arizona Humane Society

ADOT employee Rich Dimaio was driving on Interstate 10 in west Phoenix recently when he saw a woman who had pulled over and was trying to catch a kitten.