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ADOT’s Materials Lab lays the foundation for Arizona’s highways

Across the state, teams in the central lab and satellite locations are hard at work testing the essential building blocks of Arizona’s infrastructure – solids, asphalt, paint, concrete and steel rebar. These raw materials are what keep highways strong and durable, despite the harsh desert summers and freezing winter temperatures in the high-country.

PODCAST: Express yourself 104 different ways with specialty license plates

This episode of On the Road With ADOT features Bill Lamoreaux, our chief communicator on MVD matters. Bill discusses how specialty plates come to be, which are the most popular, what they cost and how specialty plates might work as holiday gifts.

November: Specialty Plate Spotlight

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.

A graphic showing the names of Adopt a Highway groups.

Adopt a Highway: More than 29 reasons to be thankful

We're celebrating 29 new groups that joined the Adopt a Highway Volunteer Program between August and October!

A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to slow down.

We’re thankful for safe drivers this Thanksgiving

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

26 November 2024

Construction to begin on new I-40 interchange in east Kingman

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 Incident Response Unit member helps rescue dog on I-10 in Phoenix

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.

Don’t throw your new driver license away with the junk mail

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.

PODCAST: Two big ADOT projects are improving Loop 101 in the Valley

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.

22 November 2024

ADOT establishes research partnership with state universities

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

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