California freeways, airports could see the most traveled holiday weekend in decades

The American Automobile Association expects the Memorial Day weekend to be the most traveled holiday weekend in almost 20 years. The agency projects more than 43 million people will travel at least 50 miles over the Memorial Day holiday travel period. This year’s total number of travelers is a 4% increase over last year with numbers close to matching 2005’s record of 44 million Memorial Day travelers.

According to the Automobile Club of Southern California, a record 3.5 million SoCal residents are expected to travel over the Memorial Day weekend surpassing the level from last year and the pre-pandemic record set in 2019. The organization advises motorists hoping to avoid the worst traffic to leave metropolitan areas early Thursday and Friday and to stay off the roads between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday.

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