{"id":367008,"date":"2025-11-09T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367008\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:13:15","slug":"2-surprise-residents-top-the-field-in-adots-safety-message-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367008\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Surprise residents top the field in ADOT\u2019s safety message contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA<\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2013 Two safety slogans have been chosen as the best in the 2025 Arizona Department of Transportation\u2019s Safety Message Contest, and a pair of Surprise residents were among the winning contributors.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hopper submitted the winning message \u201cFast &amp; furious? Try safe and courteous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holly Anne Taylor was among eight people who came up with \u201cCamp in the woods, not the left lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the first phase of the contest, more than 3,400 entries were submitted. Those messages were narrowed down to 10 finalists and shared with the public to determine the winner.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,700 votes were cast.<\/p>\n<p>Each person who submitted a winning message was invited to ADOT\u2019s Traffic Operations Center to put their messages into the system and see their safety message go live via highway cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope these messages and conversations influence drivers to make better decisions behind the wheel so driving is safer for everyone,\u201d\u00a0ADOT Director Jennifer Toth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"in-story-ad\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA PHOENIX \u2013 Two safety slogans have been chosen as the best in the 2025 Arizona Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-367008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115520157722499943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}