Landscaping

LeRoy Brady has been working on landscaping for ADOT for 45 years
9/1/2020

Sowing the seeds of beautiful highways

Drivers might have notinced the shoulders of Arizona highways are sown with flowers and other native plants. You have LeRoy Brady to thank for that.
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Aesthetic decoration L-202 SMF
2/3/2020

For ADOT freeway aesthetics are no afterthought

Designing a freeway includes quite a bit of thought about how it will look beyond the travel lanes. That's why we make sure...
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South Mountain Freeway
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Joe Salazar recognition for land form work
8/28/2019

ADOT freeway landscape designer wins lifetime achievement award

ADOT’s Joseph Salazar was honored recently with a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Landscape Architects...
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Landform Graphics
Landscaping
Crews transplanting saguaro cactus along Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
11/21/2016

Saguaro cactuses relocated for South Mountain Freeway

Landscapers are transplanting saguaros weighing up to 5,000 pounds so they can be reused once the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway is complete.
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South Mountain Freeway
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Temporary nursery is home to the plants until they are placed along the south mountain freeway.
11/4/2016

Temporary digs for plants that will grace South Mountain Freeway

Crews are making significant progress relocating hundreds of native plants, trees and cactuses in the path of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway.
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South Mountain Freeway
10/31/2016

Native plants being relocated from South Mountain Freeway path

8/24/2016

ADOT completes replanting of saguaros on Loop 101 project

relocating native cacti
6/23/2016

Preserving, relocating native plants a big part of ADOT's Loop 101 project

What weighs up to 5,000 pounds, is more than 100 years old and can be more than a little prickly about moving?
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Loop 101
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Joe Salazar working with students
5/5/2015

ASU landscape architecture students get Loop 101 tour

Learning doesn’t always have to take place inside of a classroom, sometimes it can happen safely near the side of a freeway!
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Loop 101
Beakers
7/1/2014

Science of Transportation: Calcium Carbonate testing

Plants won’t grow if they’re rooted in the wrong soil. That’s why ADOT makes sure its topsoil is suitable for good growth by testing Calcium Carbonate levels.
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