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| The ADOT Blog turns one today ... that's a lot of blog posts, photos and videos! |
At first we thought maybe a post on why we started this blogin the first place was in order, but then we figured we’d just direct you toour very first entry to cover that.
Next, we contemplated writing a comprehensive essay on thehistory of transportation in Arizona and the importance of a freeway systemthat is able to move people and things to where they need to go … it was goingto be brilliant. But, then we remembered someone’s already done that and we blogged about it in February.
So, what to do? How about we just keep it simple by saying, thankyou for reading and watching our videos! We hope you’ll continue to come backand check out what we’re working on here on the ADOT Blog because we’ve got alot in store for the months ahead.
Before we go, we want to take a look back at the past year and re-share some of our favorite posts (it was tough to choose)…
Who could forget our introduction to the ALERT team last April? This is the ADOT crew that responds to incidents and crashes on ourfreeways. They assist on scene, close down the road and set up detours.
The Adopt a Highway program was highlighted in May. We owe abig thanks to the thousands of volunteers who take on that cleanup effort!
Did you study? ADOT’s MVD offers practice driver licensetests online and we blogged about it in June.
This blog post from July started off with a bang! As thevideo shows, there is some terrain that is so rough and rocky even heavy-dutymachinery can’t break through and that’s when blasting is necessary.
There’s a lot of Arizona sunshine and ADOT puts it to gooduse. In August we wrote about a pilot program to test out the use of solar power for vehicle emergency lights.
We like writing about bridges and in September we were happyto report the residents of Mescal and J-Six Ranch go their bridge back and wereable to say goodbye to a lengthy detour.
Back in October we showed a video about caissons – themassive steel-and-concrete pillars that make up a bridge’s substructure. Itgives an awesome view from the top of these massive structures and the post isone of our most popular with nearly 3,500 page views!
This was an interesting video and blog post … all about sand jacks and false work, the temporary structures used to build bridges, tunnelsand box culverts.
Know what an attenuator is? Read this blog post from December to find out.
January brought in a new year and a new look at building a freeway.
It was just a couple of months ago, but we remember theexcitement surrounding Arizona’s centennial. Here on the blog, we chronicled a day in the life of ADOT.
In March we discovered some green dirt and told you all about it.
This month isn’t over, but why not take another look at this post on the start of construction on the SR 24.
Wow … what a year it has been!
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