{"id":154392,"date":"2022-05-20T22:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=154392"},"modified":"2022-05-23T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:42:39","slug":"aaa-memorial-day-holiday-weekend-travel-to-be-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/aaa-memorial-day-holiday-weekend-travel-to-be-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day weekend travel to be heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite record high gas prices, the unofficial start to summer will be a busy one this year as travel industry giant AAA predicts 39.2 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend, an increase of 8.3 percent over 2021, bringing travel volumes almost in line with those in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ODOT-travel-photo-11-14-2021-e1653295334892.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148261\"\/><figcaption>Travel industry giant AAA believes 2022 Memorial Day holiday travel will return to pre-pandemic levels.<em> Ohio Department of Transportation photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes a projected 1.5 million Ohioans who will travel during the extended holiday weekend, Thursday, May 26, through Monday, May 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMemorial Day is always a good predictor of what\u2019s to come for summer travel,\u201d said Paula Twidale, senior vice president, AAA Travel. \u201cBased on our projections, summer travel isn\u2019t just heating up, it will be on fire. People are overdue for a vacation and they are looking to catch up on some much-needed \u2018R&amp;R\u2019 in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of holiday travelers, 34.9 million Americans will travel by car, which could lead to travel congestion. Drivers will encounter the longest travel delays before the holiday weekend, particularly during the afternoons on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A heavier than normal law enforcement presence is expected on Ohio roadways and beyond, with officers looking for OVI, speed and other crash causing violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air travel volume, which began to rally last Thanksgiving, will hit levels just shy of 2019 with three million people expected to take to the skies this Memorial Day weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff and submitted information Despite record high gas prices, the unofficial start to summer will be a busy one this year as travel industry giant AAA predicts 39.2 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend, an increase of 8.3 percent over 2021, bringing travel volumes almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 21:02:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154460,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154392\/revisions\/154460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}