How do ADOT and BIA interact at the interface of each others roads?
Each agency is responsible for maintaining their roadway section to where it actually intersects with the others roadway. ADOT district offices and the BIA Navajo Region Roads Office have worked together to try to improve intersections of State highways and BIA routes adding turn lanes and re-striping, as funds are available. Also, interaction takes place through memorandums of agreement, especially where BIA roads intersect with state highways. A request to cost share for intersection improvements is made to ADOT. Coordination is between the BIA (usually the Agency Roads Office), the ADOT district engineer and/or local maintenance supervisor. Construction easements are obtained for connections to the each others roads.
