Agency again holding contest for clever Arizona freeway signs

PHOENIX — If you think you’re funny, now is the time to prove it: The Arizona Department of Transportation is holding another contest to create clever freeway signs.

Online submissions for sign ideas ends Feb. 26.

For an entry to be considered, it must have something to do with traffic safety and fit into three lines of 18 characters each. No hashtags, phone numbers, websites or emojis are allowed.

Are you punny? A connoisseur of #dadjokes? Is snark a second language? Maybe you’re simply serious about traffic safety? Enter our Safety Message Contest: https://t.co/4nPq7Y9DNa pic.twitter.com/MD1PVQE8Xj

— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) February 20, 2018

After all the ideas are submitted, ADOT will pick 15 finalists and then let the public vote on their favorites.

Last year’s winning sign entries read, “That’s the temperature, not the speed limit” and, “Single in HOV? Get a real date not a court date.”

Nearly 7,000 messages were submitted last year, the first time ADOT accepted public ideas for signs.

“The public’s response to our first safety message contest was incredible,” ADOT Director John Halikowski said in a release.

“The messages ran the gamut from creative and funny to heartfelt and serious. We loved seeing that because it tells us that people are engaged with changing driver behavior and making safer the roads we travel every day.”

You can take a look at last year’s finalists in the gallery below.

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