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Arizona Highways magazine, published by ADOT, won three first-place Gold Awards from the nonprofit International Regional Media Association. A panel of magazine industry experts judges its annual awards competition. 

Recent lane striping work has improved traffic flow by extending right lanes along Loop 101 (Price Freeway) near US 60 in Tempe. Crews have adjusted lane stripes to extend right lanes and promote safer merging conditions in both directions along the freeway. Learn more here.

The $8.2 billion program puts a major emphasis on improving highway pavement and bridge infrastructure beyond Maricopa and Pima counties. It provides more than $2.5 billion for these high-priority improvements during the next five years.

Please visit azdot.gov/EVPlan to register for the virtual meeting and receive your link to attend. Project staff will be available to share information about the new proposed station locations on state highways and answer questions. 

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan ahead and expect delays as  eastbound Interstate 10 will be closed between State Route 51 and US 60 from 10 p.m. Friday, June 21, to 4 a.m. Monday, June 24, for a traffic shift.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan for lane restrictions and delays for a pavement improvement project on US 60 north of Globe that is scheduled to begin Monday, June 17.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is starting a project Wednesday, June 19, to improve safety and traffic flow at the intersection of State Route 87 and Skousen Road in northwest Coolidge.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan ahead and expect delays as the southbound State Route 143 will be closed between Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway) and Interstate 10, from 10 p.m. Friday, June 14, to 4 a.m. Monday, June 17, for concrete repair and a traffic shift.

Picacho Peak stands out as the signature landmark along Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson. Next to the freeway, a transportation landmark entering its fifth monsoon season stands ready to activate when blowing dust dangerously reduces visibility.

PHOENIX – A wall of dust that towers on the horizon. A heavy downpour of localized rain. These weather occurrences that happen during the monsoon season can rapidly reduce visibility and create unsafe driving conditions.  

With the monsoon season rapidly approaching – officially, it runs June 15-Sept. 30 – ADOT is reminding motorists during Monsoon Awareness Week (June 9-15) how to stay safe and be prepared for the extreme weather that monsoon season brings.

Continuing a much-needed project to improve the ride on 6 miles of I-17 between Happy Valley Road and SR 74, crews removed a top layer of older, worn asphalt pavement before advancing to work to smooth the remaining concrete surface through a process called diamond grinding.

East- and westbound SR 260 traffic is alternating in one lane between Rim Road and Heber-Overgaard (mileposts 282-304) from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and from 5 a.m. to noon on Fridays. Expect significant delays that become more pronounced as the weekend approaches.

ADOT continued a much-needed project to improve the ride on I-17 between Happy Valley Road and SR 74. Crews removed a top layer of older, worn asphalt pavement before advancing to work to smooth the remaining concrete surface through a process called diamond grinding.

The Arizona Department of Transportation has completed a project enhancing safety for motorists and bicyclists using State Route 80 in and near the Mule Pass Tunnel just west of Bisbee in southeastern Arizona.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan ahead and expect delays as westbound Interstate 10 will be closed between US 60 and Interstate 17 from 10 p.m. Friday, May 31, to 4 a.m. Monday, June 3, for bridge work.

As it has annually since 2014, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded $72,000 to ADOT’s Crash Records section, which is responsible under state law for creating crash data reports that government agencies, nonprofit groups and others use to improve traffic safety.

The posted detour using the northbound I-17 frontage road moved traffic efficiently throughout the weekend, and ADOT is grateful to drivers who heeded advice to use this route. Law enforcement officers and ADOT personnel were in the area to assist with local-only closures at neighborhood entrances.

This is the second time Show Low Regional Airport has been named the state’s Airport of the Year. The first was in 2007. It is one of 67 airports across Arizona that are publicly owned and publicly operated. 

Drivers should allow extra travel time and stay on the designated detour route, which uses the frontage road, while northbound I-17 is closed between Loop 303 and State Route 74.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan ahead and expect delays as northbound State Route 143 will close between Broadway Road and Washington Street from 10 p.m. Friday, May 17, to 4 a.m. Monday, May 20, for paving.