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Traveling north on US 93 past Kingman is an old mining town called Chloride.

At one point in the town's history, there were over 75 working mines. Today, the number is unknown and they are either privately owned or controlled by the federal government.

These days, Chloride is popular for a tourist destination four miles off the highway: murals.

Similarly to how artwork adorns the walls of museums, artwork also adorns the walls, bridges and columns of Arizona’s highways.

Transportation history can be right in front of you and still require a little luck to find it. That happened when I checked what the State Library, Archives and Public Records’ Arizona Memory Project has on a former state highway underpass right outside my office on 17th Avenue, just south of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix.

With pollinating insect populations like bees and Monarch butterflies declining, ADOT is establishing and conserving pollinator habitats along its rights of way.

ADOT’s efforts are spotlighted in the Transportation Research Board’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program’s series of 16 guides. Arizona and New Mexico are featured in the Southwest Guide, which was released this week.

Winter is ready to pounce, which means ADOT is getting ready to close the first of five highways for the season.

PHOENIX - The Arizona Department of Transportation has been honored by the Arizona Transportation Partnering Excellence Award Committee for excellence shown in a number of infrastructure and other projects statewide in 2020. 

These awards recognize transportation partnership teams that show a high degree of achievement by using partnering principles and processes related to the transportation industry.