Tom Herrmann – ADOT Communications - Wed January 30, 2019
ADOT 'Goes Deep' With Columns to Support Roadway, Keep Bridges Steady
Every time you drive by an overpass, you see the cement-and-steel columns that support the roadway. There could be only a few on a small overpass, or more than a dozen in larger overpasses like the ones at two current projects on Interstate 10 in Pinal County....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue January 29, 2019
For I-10 Widening Project, ADOT Is Recycling Old Roadway
Almost as soon as traffic on eastbound Interstate 10 started using new lanes through 4 mi. of Pinal County between Eloy and Picacho, Arizona Department of Transportation crews began demolishing travel lanes that had been in use for more than 40 years....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue January 29, 2019
Driving Surfaces Complete on Longest SMF Bridges
The largest structures on the Arizona Department of Transportation's Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway project are nearly complete, with crews finishing the concrete decks of two half-mile-long bridges that will carry traffic over the Salt River in the growing southwest Valley....
AASHTO Journal - Tue January 29, 2019
ADOT Deploys 25 New 'High-Tech' Snow Plow Trucks
The Arizona Department of Transportation is adding 25 new "high-tech" snow plow trucks to its fleet of 200 units; trucks equipped with lighter, more flexible 12-ft. plow blades that can be adjusted from inside the cab....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Fri December 28, 2018
Girders Set for Two South Mountain Freeway Interchanges
As the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway advances, bridge girders were installed last month at two of the 14 planned traffic interchanges, marking the first time on this Arizona Department of Transportation project that these massive support beams were set at two interchanges in the same week....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Fri December 28, 2018
$6.5M Apache Trail Project Complete
With a project to resurface the roadway and construct improvements along a 17-mi. stretch of State Route 88 (Apache Trail) complete east of the Valley, the keys to safety on this historic, winding roadway remain obeying the speed limit, staying alert and not driving impaired....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 04, 2018
ADOT Responds to Population Boom With $40M I-10 Expansion
Arizona population is booming and local highway builders are responding. They are moving at a good pace despite summer heat and frequent dust storms. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Federal Highway Administration are busy with a $40M project to widen Interstate 10 between Casa Grande and Tucson, from just south of Earley Road to Interstate 8 (mileposts 196-200) in Casa Grande....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue December 04, 2018
Reducing Inactive Projects Moves Improvements Forward
When a project isn't using some or all of the funding committed to it because it's become inactive, freeing that money as quickly as possible means the Arizona Department of Transportation can move forward sooner with other work that's ready to go....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue December 04, 2018
ADOT's Snowplows, Drivers Ready for Winter Weather
When a couple of October storms dropped early snow on Arizona's high country, the Arizona Department of Transportation and its plows were ready because the agency prepares year-round for winter weather....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue December 04, 2018
ADOT's $62M SR 260 Project Heads Into Winter Hiatus
Due to a colder, wetter October than anticipated, final work on the State Route 260 widening project between Camp Verde and Cottonwood will take place next spring, including putting down the final pavement layer known as a friction course....
