ADOT

As with many ADOT freeway improvement projects, the mission was a challenge: build two new interchanges along Loop 303 west of Interstate 17 in one year. Well, the project team came through before Labor Day, which is symbolic given the...

In those years just before a freeway improvement project is ready to start, we’re all allowed to imagine what it will be like once the work is done. On I-10 in the Buckeye area, the imagination has become reality. ADOT’s $82 million project...

I hope you’ve heard the news that ADOT has started the first of 23 projects to repair damaged pavement following the record-setting winter. More of these projects will be starting in the coming weeks to remove and replace damaged surface...

Summer is on the horizon, and that traditionally means the start of ADOT’s pavement repair season. After an unusually harsh winter, we’re gearing up for even more projects across the state. In addition to pavement projects already in the...

There are a lot of funny sounding tools and instruments that help ADOT maintain the state's highways. You've heard of Distance Measurement Instruments and even something called the "pokey picker upper," but what in the world is an...

Today is March 14. Or, written another way, 3/14. That makes today "Pi Day." Pi, which has an approximate value of 3.14, is used to find the area and circumference of a circle. Pi has many applications and engineers at ADOT certainly use it...

March is Women’s History Month and we want to take a moment to acknowledge former Arizona Governor Rose Mofford. Mofford was Arizona’s first female governor, holding the state’s highest office from 1988 to 1991. She was governor when the...

The next time you trek to Las Vegas and notice work crews are widening another section of US 93, you might pause for a moment to think of the work of Kara Lavertue. Lavertue’s role at ADOT includes working on high-profile improvements like...

This 1959 Chevy Apache was a work truck for decades. In the ‘80s, the daily grind caught up and its condition deteriorated. But its best years were yet to come.