Best and Worst Times for Thanksgiving Travel
If you're traveling by car this Thanksgiving, try to drive very early in the morning.
About 43.6 million people are planning to travel 50 miles or more for their Thanksgiving meal this year, according to AAA—and 90 percent of those people are traveling by car. While D.C. area traffic is traffic-heavy throughout the holiday period, the day before Thanksgiving is the heaviest travel day. Before Georgetown students travel home or residents travel to visit family, check out some of the resources local transit agencies are providing to travelers to make their journey a little easier. Traveling South through Virginia To help you plan your travel, the Virginia Department of Transportation created this set of maps showing Thanksgiving traffic congestion from Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Unlike last year, the …
