Supervisor Rios: ‘ADOT does right by continuing roadside memorials’
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Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios
Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios said he is pleased with the decision of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to continue to allow roadside memorials.
“ADOT does right by continuing roadside memorials,” the District 1 Supervisor said. “This is a way families and friends remember loved ones lost in automobile or other vehicle accidents. My thanks goes to those who wrote and called ADOT and the Governor’s Office to express their dissatisfaction with the removal of many of the memorial crosses. It was their action that made this policy change possible.”
Supervisor Rios became the champion in the fight to keep the roadside memorials in April when he had received calls about many crosses missing from highways in parts of Gila and Pinal Counties.