ADOT - Wed August 07, 2024
Arizona Dept. of Transportation Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Arizona's highways have existed almost since statehood in 1912, but the agency overseeing them, the Arizona Department of Transportation, marked its 50th anniversary. It's all because state lawmakers, facing a booming population and accelerating transportation needs, decided to consolidate the Arizona Highway Department and Arizona Aeronautics Department as of July 1974....
UDOT, ADOT - Wed August 07, 2024
Arizona, Utah Infrastructure Upgrades Earn Recognition
Several projects were recently honored by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) at the 2024 America's Transportation Awards for quality in construction in numerous categories....
Arizona DOT - Wed July 10, 2024
Arizona Officials Approve Five-Year, $8B Construction Plan
The Arizona State Transportation Board has approved the 2025-2029 Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program, which emphasizes pavement and bridge improvements and expanding several key highways....
ADOT - Tue May 14, 2024
ADOT Dedicates I-10 Tunnel to Late Engineer Dean Lindsey
The Arizona Department of Transportation is honoring a late civil engineer tasked with managing the development of the Interstate 10 Deck Park Tunnel and final segments of the Papago Freeway north of downtown Phoenix....
ADOT - Tue May 14, 2024
Arizona Construction Crews Restoring Access to SR 88
Arizona Department of Transportation crews are removing vegetation, grading the roadway and repairing drainage culverts to prepare for a project that will restore limited access to a stretch of State Route 88 (Apache Trail) that has been closed since severe flooding in 2019....
ADOT - Wed April 17, 2024
Officials Approve Final Federal Assessment for Highway Project
Plans to expand 26 mi. of Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Casa Grande are moving forward following environmental approval late last week. The widening project will increase capacity and reduce congestion on a busy section of I-10 near Wild Horse Pass within the Gila River Indian Community....
ADOT - Wed March 20, 2024
Arizona Seeks Input On Five-Year, $7.9B Transportation Plan
The Arizona Department of Transportation is targeting pavement improvements and expanding several key highways as major parts of its Tentative Five-Year Construction Program for 2025-2029. This proposed annual update to the ADOT's list of projects in design and construction is now available for public comment through late May....
ADOT - Wed March 20, 2024
Crews Placing 217 Girders as Part of Arizona's I-10 Project
Crews began reconstructing a portion of Interstate 10 in Tucson, Ariz., a little over a year ago, but work is quickly progressing and the Arizona Department of Transportation recently announced that the project is now close to halfway complete....
ADOT - Wed January 24, 2024
New Roadways, Bridges Taking Shape in Tucson as Crews Ramp Up Work
A widening and reconstruction project in the northwest Tucson area has transformed a 4-mi. segment of Interstate 10 since work began last spring, demolishing travel lanes, multiple bridges and two interchanges that have been in constant use for decades....
ADOT - Tue December 12, 2023
Broadway Curve Project Reaches Halfway Milestone
Phoenix, America's fifth-largest city, is being transformed by the Broadway Curve project, which is now halfway complete, according to an update from the Arizona Department of Transportation. The project began in spring 2021 and is expected to be completed in late 2024....
