More People Expected to Travel This Memorial Day Weekend

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 that one million Washington metro area residents will take a trip of 50 miles or more this holiday weekend.

“It’s the highest number of holiday travelers hailing from the Washington metro area in a dozen years,” said John Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s manager of public and government affairs.

You can find more detailed information about the auto club’s Memorial Day travel forecast by visiting its website, here.

With 39.3 million Americans planning a trip, this will be the busiest #MemorialDay for travel since 2005. https://t.co/WfL3v4ShcG pic.twitter.com/2AbjsKATbS

— AAA Mid-Atlantic (@AAAMidAtlantic) May 25, 2017

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