Work Zone

PHOENIX – Pilot projects using technology to make highway work zones safer and commercial vehicle inspections at the border more efficient will begin in early 2017 thanks to federal grants recently awarded to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

The Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks grants, totaling $581,000, are from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Following two incidents in the past 10 days where two road workers having been hit on state highways, ADOT is reminding drivers to pay attention in work zones.

Safety is our top priority – for our workers and the public – and National Work Zone Awareness Week gives us the opportunity to feature some tips to make work zones along Arizona’s highways safer for everyone.

PHOENIX – Flashing orange lights. Bright orange traffic cones. Striped barrels and barricades.

You’re entering a work zone.

What coincidental timing, too, because the Arizona Department of Transportation is marking the beginning of National Work Zone Awareness Week (April 11-15) today.

Drivers need to slow down in the work zone! Crews on the Loop 101 project have noted that not all motorists are adhering to the reduced limit through the project zone.

For as long as there have been roads, there have been work zones.

Driving with caution through a work zone will not only help to protect road crews, but it will also help to ensure your safety.

Work Zone Awareness Week starts today and we've got some tips that will help keep you, and everyone in the work zone, safe.

With the number of road construction projects happening around the Valley right now, chances are you’ve driven through an active construction zone or two recently. Maybe you’ve noticed the lane lines in some of these construction zones look a little different. A little … temporary?

‘Why are the cones and barricades still up, but no one is working?!?!?’ If you’ve ever driven by an empty freeway work zone, you might have wondered this yourself. But, despite how things may appear, there still is a risk to the traveling public, which means those barricades are very necessary.