AAA Predicts Thanksgiving Travel To Bounce Back To Almost To Pre-Pandemic Levels

(CBS Miami) – Thanksgiving question is afloat steam up connected roads crossed the U.S.

“What are you expecting retired connected the roads tonight?” asked CBS Miami’s Austin Carter successful Florida.

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“A batch of traffic, I saw it coming,” said traveler Yanna Gomez.

Gomez and her lad are making their mode to Tampa up Florida’s Turnpike to spot family, but not earlier filling up astatine the Pompano Beach Service Plaza.

“They conscionable moved determination truthful we’re going to reunite,” said Gomez.

Reuniting this twelvemonth is simply a large woody for Gomez, arsenic the coronavirus pandemic made it intolerable to bash truthful successful 2020.

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“It was pugnacious past year. It was conscionable maine and my ma successful the location and we didn’t spell out,” said Gomez.

AAA predicts an 8% increase in Thanksgiving travel. The 2021 forecast is overmuch person to pre-pandemic levels.

And with much radical feeling comfy erstwhile again to sojourn with loved ones, AAA spokesperson Mark Jenkins said to not fto your defender down.

“Oftentimes, it’s those radical successful a large unreserved that instrumentality unnecessary risks down the instrumentality that tin pb to a devastating crash,” said Jenkins. “Keep your cellphone down, permission aboriginal if you tin truthful you’re not successful a rush.”

Matthew Reed is hoping for creaseless sailing portion headed for Mississippi.

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“I deliberation it’s going to beryllium hectic connected the highway,” said Reed. “Sometimes betwixt present and Alabama it’s congested truthful hopefully that’s wherefore we got an aboriginal commencement to bushed astir of it”.