Memorial Day Travel Expected to Set Record for Washington Area
1.05 Million Washington Area Residents Expected to Travel
Do you have plans to get away this Memorial Day weekend? If so, you are going to have a lot of company on local roads.
The auto club, AAA Mid-Atlantic, is projecting a record number of Washington area residents will take a trip of 50 miles or more this holiday weekend. AAA predicts 1,053,400 residents, an increase of 5% from last year, will travel for Memorial Day getaways.
AAA has been tracing and tracking Memorial Day leisure travel trends and volumes since 2001.
“For the second year in a row, more than one million Washington metro area residents will travel during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” said John Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s manager of public and government affairs.
The autoclub warns motorists to expect delays on key roads as nearly nearly 90 percent of the 1.05 Million travelers will reach their destination by car. The graph below, from INRIX, shows the peak travel date and time for each of the major area highways.
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Washington, D.C. Peak Travel Times |
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Name |
Peak Date |
Time |
Normal Travel Time |
Predicted Travel Time |
Delay |
% Delay |
Speed (MpH) |
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US50 W |
5/28/2018 |
5:45 p.m. |
32 mins |
2 hrs & 23 mins |
1 hrs & 51 mins |
343% |
13.3 |
|
I95 S |
5/24/2018 |
5 p.m. |
1 hrs & 14 mins |
1 hrs & 44 mins |
30 mins |
40% |
20.5 |
|
I95 N |
5/28/2018 |
6 p.m. |
33 mins |
1 hrs & 11 mins |
38 mins |
114% |
29.2 |
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Capital Beltway Anticlockwise |
5/29/2018 |
5:30 p.m. |
33 mins |
57 mins |
24 mins |
72% |
19.5 |
|
I270 S |
5/24/2018 |
8 a.m. |
46 mins |
1 hrs & 21 mins |
35 mins |
75% |
22.3 |
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Capital Beltway Clockwise |
5/29/2018 |
4:45 p.m. |
42 mins |
1 hrs & 6 mins |
24 mins |
58% |
9.3 |
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I270 N |
5/23/2018 |
5:15 p.m. |
43 mins |
1 hrs & 11 mins |
28 mins |
64% |
25.2 |
|
US50 E |
5/24/2018 |
9 p.m. |
38 mins |
1 hrs & 17 mins |
39 mins |
104% |
28.3 |
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Source: INRIX |
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You can find more detailed information about the auto club’s Memorial Day travel forecast by visiting its website, here.
Prepare for crowded roads this weekend! Nearly 2 million more people will head to beaches and other top #MemorialDay destinations this year. #travelforecast https://t.co/hKKM3baYj8 pic.twitter.com/FrVdxpMKT6
— AAA Travel (@AAA_Travel) May 24, 2018
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