An attempt to relieve a bottleneck on state Route 87 Friday ironically created an even worse traffic jam that left thousands of drivers stuck on the Beeline Highway for more than an hour.

Mesa and Chandler officials said Arizona Department of Transportation officials didn’t tell the public it would build shorter sound walls when it made a deal with federal officials to pave freeways with rubberized asphalt.

It may be the middle of summer vacation for most kids, but several schools across the state are already planning on creating or enhancing their Safe Routes to School programs for the next school year, thanks to reimbursement grants from the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).

The Arizona Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Planning Division was recently honored with the 2012 State Leadership Award by the Community Transportation Association of America at its annual conference in Baltimore.

Tim Leija always seems to be in the right place at the right time when people need help.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for effectively managing its fiscal year 2010 budgets and finances.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for effectively managing its fiscal year 2010 budgets and finances.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is giving drivers a break over Thanksgiving by pulling in its orange cones.

Paving the first freeway lanes of the Loop 303 in north Phoenix is expected to begin this fall.

The Arizona Department of Transportation said it is moving ahead with plans to place an eight-lane, $1.9 billion extension of the Loop 202 freeway through neighborhoods in Ahwatukee and parts of South Mountain Park.

 Tens of thousands of residents drive each day from the Queen Creek area to job centers in Maricopa County. According to the Small Area Transportation Study conducted with Arizona Department of Transportation, nine out of 10 workers in the Johnson Ranch/San Tan area have to drive into Maricopa County to get to their jobs.

Scottsdale must pay investors in a local office complex $195,000 for damages related to flooding, a jury ruled Wednesday, while state transportation officials have to pony up more than $7 million.

The Arizona Department of Transportation has shifted into overdrive to prepare east Mesa residents for a whole new method of getting on or off a freeway - the roundabout.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is holding its first-ever mass auction of property left over following construction of freeways.

A frenzy of highway projects are planned for the next five years to ease the East Valley's worst traffic woes and speed trips Valley residents take across the state.

The Arizona Department of Transportation — publisher of the award-winning Arizona Highways magazine — is asking to be awarded the profits of a downtown Scottsdale business in a lawsuit alleging federal trademark infringement.

The Arizona Department of Transportation will hold two meetings this week to gain public comment on the height of sound walls along the Santan Freeway between Arizona Avenue and Gilbert Road in Chandler.

State transportation officials said Thursday they will return to an original plan for constructing sound barrier walls up to 20-foot high along the future San Tan Freeway in Chandler after complaints raised by local residents and city officials.