Memorial Day Weekend Travel Expected to Set Record for Washington Area
1.07 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 1,077,600 residents, an increase of 3.1% from last year, will travel for Memorial Day getaways.
AAA has been tracing and tracking Memorial Day leisure travel trends and volumes since 2001.
“Expect sizeable increases in congestion on area freeways during the Memorial Day getaway, starting as early as this afternoon on the Capital Beltway Clockwise, as delays increase 85%.” 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 89 percent of the 1.07 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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Road Name |
Peak Date |
Peak Time |
Normal Travel Time |
Predicted Travel Time |
Delay |
% Delay |
Speed (MpH) |
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US50 W |
5/27/2019 |
4:15 p.m. |
34 mins |
2 hrs & 20 mins |
1 hrs & 45 mins |
307% |
13.6 |
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I95 S |
5/23/2019 |
5:00 p.m. |
1 hrs & 39 mins |
2 hrs & 3 mins |
23 mins |
24% |
22.7 |
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I95 N |
5/27.2019 |
4:30 p.m. |
38 mins |
1 hrs & 5 mins |
27 mins |
72% |
31.9 |
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Capital Beltway Anticlockwise |
5/23/2019 |
6:00 p.m. |
35 mins |
48 mins |
13 mins |
36% |
23.6 |
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I270 S |
5/23/2019 |
7:15 a.m. |
55 mins |
1 hrs & 22 mins |
27 mins |
50% |
22.2 |
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Capital Beltway Clockwise |
5/22/2019 |
4:00 p.m. |
35 mins |
1 hrs & 4 mins |
30 mins |
85% |
9.8 |
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I270 N |
5/23/2019 |
6:00 p.m. |
54 mins |
1 hrs & 23 mins |
29 mins |
54% |
21.6 |
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US50 E |
5/23/2019 |
9:00 p.m. |
39 mins |
1 hrs & 4 mins |
25 mins |
64% |
34 |
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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.
More people than ever on record will take road trips this #MemorialDay. Are you one of the 37.6 million Americans planning to hit the road? #travelforecast https://t.co/g9R2HVVT1G pic.twitter.com/mJAWj8hfKx
— AAA Travel (@AAA_Travel) May 18, 2019
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