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Heaviest Thanksgiving Travel In 12 Years

If you’re travelling for your Thanksgiving holiday get-together, and you haven’t left already, you’ll have lots of company all day today. An estimated 2.3 million Northern Californians are expected to travel more than 50 miles. This is one of the busiest travel days of the year. In fact, Triple-A of Northern California media relations specialist, Mike Blasky, says this is the highest volume since 2005…

click to listen to Mike Blasky

About 90% of Californians are driving to their destinations. And Blasky says the recent spike in gas prices, which are the highest since 2014, have not been an inhibiting factor. Meanwhile, he says average airfares will be 23% cheaper…

click to listen to Mike Blasky

As always, Blasky says the best time for motorists to leave or return home is before 7am or after 9 at night. But he says if you can hold off until Thanksgiving morning, traffic is fairly light, with many businesses closed.

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