By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

Last week we told you about the progress on the Ina Road and Interstate 10 interchange in Marana. Today's Art of Transportation photo shows a row of rebar ready for the bridge deck to be poured over the Santa Cruz River. Check out our video that showcases the deck pour.

The $128 million project has reached its six-month mark, and drivers soon will see the first girders set for the bridge that will carry Ina Road over I-10. Beginning in early 2018, crews will begin working on the east side of the freeway.

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We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

While everyone will soon be looking skyward when the total solar eclipse occurs on Aug. 21, ADOT photographers are always looking up. They're usually trying to capture shots of a bridge girder going up for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway or the latest overpass being built. Sometimes they happen to capture unique cloud formations or a nice shot of the moon. Today's Art of Transportation photo shows a crane and rigging framing the moon during the construction of the I-10 and Price Road interchange in Tucson.

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We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

An ADOT news release today shared show a structure known as a straddle bent is an important part of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway interchange under construction near Interstate 10 and 59th Avenue. Able to straddle lanes of traffic to support a flyover ramp, it's a handy alternative to a standard one-column bridge pier.

I visited the construction site recently to take pictures (including the one at right) as the first straddle bent neared completion, straddling the westbound lanes of I-10. If you drive past it today, the wooden falsework has come down, so you can see its concrete cap in full.

One of the best ways to see how this straddle bent and others will be used is looking at straddle bents at other freeway-to-freeway interchanges. The slideshow above takes you to the I-10/SR 51 HOV lane ramps in central Phoenix and to the Loop 202 Santan/Loop 101 Price interchange in Chandler.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

Today's Art of Transportation photo gives a unique perspective on the crews working on the Ina Road/I-10 interchange in Marana. This construction worker appears larger than life when viewing him through a small square.

The project will elevate Ina Road so it can pass over I-10 and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The project will also of widen I-10 to three lanes in each direction and Ina Road to two lanes in each direction from Silverbell Road to Camino de la Cruz.

The new interchange is scheduled to begin taking traffic in 2018. To keep up on progress, you can download the town of Marana's Project Ina app to your smartphone.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

This close-up of nuts and bolts from the Prince Road project in Tucson makes them look as big as the building in the background! These bolts connect streetlight posts to the concrete base the light sits on.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

While many Art of Transportation photos showcase colorful panoramas around Arizona, this one gives us a black and white view of a mountain well-known to many hikers. Picketpost Mountain is located south of US 60 in the Tonto National Forest and was named for a lone mailbox placed at the top of the mountain.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

ADOT workers out in the field aren't showcased very often even though they're literally doing the agency's heavy lifting. In today's Art of Transportation post, the reflection off of a guardrail on State Route 74 illuminates this ADOT worker's face. Workers are constantly repairing guardrails damaged by crashes. Sometimes they even have to replace guardrail burned by wildfires.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

Just like many people remodel their homes, the Chevelon Creek Bridge went through a major remodel a few years ago. Not only did the 100-year-old bridge get a new coat of paint in an extensive process that involved wrapping the entire bridge in plastic, but the bridge deck was replaced. Steel repairs were also made. This Art of Transportation photo showcases some of the shiny new rivets that were replaced as part of the bridge overhaul.

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We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty
ADOT Communications

Sunshine accents some of the rock formations that make Monument Valley a magnet for tourists. Today's Art of Transportation features this photo from US 163 at the Utah-Arizona line.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.

By John Dougherty / ADOT Communications

A lot of construction work involves getting dirty, and today's Art of Transportation photo is a perfect example of this. What looks like dirt caked on a tire in this photo is actually concrete. This photo was taken as crews were laying concrete for the southbound lanes of Loop 303 in the West Valley.

Art of Transportation
We think there is beauty in transportation. It’s not all hard hats and pavement. Art of Transportation is a blog series featuring unique photos our team has taken while on the road or on a construction project.