By Tom Herrmann / ADOT Communications

As Sonora dedicated a safety corridor Monday along Federal 8 between Lukeville and Puerto Peñasco, Arizona leaders including ADOT Director John Halikowski (fourth from the right with a white shirt and tie) helped mark the occasion.

Traveling to Sonoyta, just south of the border, these Arizonans joined Sonora officials in recognizing a binational effort that led to the safety corridor.

Corredor Seguro Sign

They noted that Arizonans will benefit from Mexico's safety corridor as they head to the beaches of Rocky Point, while Sonora residents will benefit when they head to Sonoyta and visit Arizona.

This partnership, they said, is about increasing safety and working together with mutual respect.

Resulting from a joint agreement signed by Governor Doug Ducey and Sonora Governor Claudia Pavlovich at a summit held in Rocky Point in December, the safety corridor includes road signs with safety messages in Spanish and English and a pilot program that will have Sonora sharing information from that area to 511 and ADOT’s Arizona Traveler Information site, az511.gov.

ADOT representatives visited Mexico to train first responders and government officials on Traffic Incident Management, which promotes quickly clearing incident scenes when appropriate while safeguarding motorists and emergency workers. Traffic Incident Management techniques have been shown to reduce secondary crashes that often are more serious than the initial incidents.

“Our long-standing partnership with Mexico is as strong as ever and this safety corridor between Arizona and Sonora is a great example of how cross-border collaboration helps promote safety and tourism for everyone,” Governor Ducey said in a news release. “Governor Pavlovich has been an incredible partner on this safety corridor and I thank her for all of her efforts.”

NOTE: Today’s blog, for our Spanish-speaking audience, talks about newly designated Safety Corridors.

By Lourdes Lerma / ADOT Communications

A partir del 12 de diciembre, 2016, los conductores de Arizona observan nuevos señalamientos indicando las secciones de algunas carreteras que serán Corredores Seguros y notarán un incremento en la presencia de oficiales de policía en estos Corredores Seguros.

Los Corredores Seguros son secciones de la carretera en las que suceden más choques, más heridos y más muertes de lo que normalmente se espera y estas secciones fueron seleccionadas porque tienen más casos de lo normal de conductores manejando a exceso de velocidad, de manera agresiva, intoxicados por alcohol o drogas y por no usar el cinturón de seguridad; esas son las causas principales por muertes en el tráfico, y creemos que disminuyendo esos incidentes hará los caminos más seguros para todos”.

Los Corredores Seguros permitirán que todos viajen de manera más segura. Si usted ya está obedeciendo las leyes de tráfico no tiene por qué preocuparse y puede disfrutar de un viaje más seguro. Si maneja a exceso de velocidad, de manera agresiva o infringe otras leyes de tráfico enfrentará las consecuencias porque habrá cero tolerancia.

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Spanish Blog Series
To better serve Arizona’s Spanish-speaking community, our occasional Spanish blog series covers all aspects of transportation including safety and the Motor Vehicle Division.

By Doug Pacey / ADOT Communications

You'll see new signs along two stretches of highway beginning this week – and more are on the way – designating Safety Corridors.

As we shared in our news release, these signs are accompanied by others noting that there will be zero tolerance for violations.

The video above notes the simple reason for Safety Corridors: ADOT, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety want to reduce crashes, severe injuries and fatalities, and getting drivers to focus on speed limits and other rules of the road is a way to do that.

To create Safety Corridors, ADOT and its partners reviewed historic crash data related to driver behavior and sought input from law enforcement.

Each phase of the Safety Corridor rollout focuses on an urban and a rural highway segment:

• In the first phase underway this week, signs are going up on four miles from the I-17 Stack to SR 51/Loop 202 Red Mountain Mini-Stack and on 23 miles of I-10 between the Loop 202 Santan Freeway and State Route 187.
• The second phase will involve 13 miles of US 60 from the Loop 101 Price Freeway to the Loop 202 and 23 miles of I-40 from Kingman east to US 93.

A grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety helped support establishing these Safety Corridors.