PHOENIX AZ (May 8, 2013) - As summer approaches in northern Arizona, the Arizona Department of Transportation will reopen State Route 67 between Jacob Lake and the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Arizona State Route 67, which is the lone road that links US 89A at Jacob Lake to the North Rim, is regularly closed in the winter season, usually starting in late November,... 

Cottonwood AZ (May 6, 2013) – Lane restrictions will be required on an eight-mile segment of Arizona State Route 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona beginning Monday, May 13, 2013, to allow crews to perform preventative maintenance on the roadway, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Work will continue daily, Monday to Thursday from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. until May 21, 2013. The four-lane... 

Sedona AZ (April 28, 2013) – The construction of the two-mile-long climbing lane near the top of Copper Canyon Hill will require closing Arizona Interstate 17 in both directions on Thursday, May 2, 2013, for up to one hour between midnight and 1 a.m. as crews prepare for blasting rock cuts along the highway. Traffic on northbound I-17 will be stopped at State Route 169 and southbound I-17 will... 

AZ I-17 Overnight and Daytime construction for March 3 through 8, 2013 Sedona AZ (March 3, 2013) – The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has scheduled construction work for Interstate 17 at Exit 262 (Cordes Junction) northbound. The Exit 262 will be closed from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday night, March 4, 2013, and throughout the week until March 8, 2013, as follows:  Crews continue... 

Gary Chamberlain, Folksville USA Point Man Sedona AZ (February 12, 2013) – Many of the Arizona Adopt-A-Highway groups and Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) can do better! The ADOT employees that get paid to manage the Adopt-A-Highway program are not getting the results the taxpayers deserve. ADOT’s records prove it! In 2009, the anti-litter clean up performance of the fifteen... 

Sedona AZ (January 24, 2013) – Crews will realign the northbound lanes back to the normal configuration on Arizona Interstate 17 at the Cordes Junction traffic interchange next week and as a result, the following restrictions and detours will be in place (weather permitting), according to the Arizona Department of Transportation: Sunday, January 27:  ▪ A left lane restriction on southbound... 

ADOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan enters Public Comment Phase – Join the conversation! Phoenix AZ (January 8, 2013) – As walking and bicycling for transportation and recreation steadily grows in popularity around our state, the Arizona Department of Transportation continues to advance its Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan to improve safety and multimodal travel options. ADOT is working on finalizing... 

ADOT Interstate 17 Update for week of January 7-11, 2013 Prescott AZ (January 6, 2013) – The following overnight detour will be in place on southbound Arizona Interstate 17 at Cordes Junction the remainder of this week as crews remove dirt from the median and continue work on the pedestrian fence along the Cordes Lakes bridge, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation:  Monday, January 7... 

Senator Highway landslide Prescott AZ (December 31, 2012) – Denny Foulk, Yavapai County Emergency Management Coordinator, provided the following update today regarding the landside on Arizona’s Senator Highway: “Yavapai County Public Works will be evaluating existing hazards which remain on the Senator Highway landslide site. In the interest of public safety, Senator Highway will... 

ADOT Interstate 17 Update for December 18-21, 2012 Prescott AZ (December 18, 2012) – A major project milestone will be reached this week when the new northbound Arizona Interstate 17 to northbound State Route 69 flyover bridge opens to traffic, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. The new flyover bridge is scheduled to open at 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 20, 2012. Access to...