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AAA says this Memorial Day weekend will have the highest volume of travel the holiday has seen in 10 years.
“There is still a lot of the ‘hangover,’ if you will, from the winter that we just had and people back in December, January, and February were thinking, ‘When the weather is nice, get me out of here, let me go somewhere,’” said AAA Northeast spokesman Dave Raposa.
AAA projects 37.2 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home this weekend, up nearly five percent from last year.
Most of those people will drive, and despite a recent rise, gas prices are still more than a dollar lower than they were a year ago.
“We don’t think that the price of gasoline will have any negative impact at all on people’s decisions, and in fact we think it might even spur people to say, yeah, let’s go up and see the White Mountains, let’s go up to New York,” said Raposa.
Local travel is expected to good too, with more than 1.5 million New Englanders expected to take trips by car. That’s up 5.1 percent from last year, an increase slightly higher than the national average.
