Holiday Travel

Cheap gas and the long weekend will send New Jerseyans traveling in record numbers this Christmas.

NEW YORK (AP) -- If it's a white Christmas you're after, you'd better follow this familiar advice: Go West.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Travelers setting out for the holidays could face trouble, with anticipated Christmas Eve snow around the Great Lakes states and heavy rain expected along the East Coast.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- One of the busiest, most stressful travel days of the year posed special challenges in the crowded Washington-to-Boston corridor as travelers on their way to Thanksgiving celebrations contended with a nor'easter packing rain and snow.

If you are planning to travel this upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, you certainly will not be alone. Airlines for America is projecting that 24.6 million passengers will travel worldwide during the 12-day Thanksgiving travel period, a slight increase over last year.

If you are traveling this holiday weekend, pack your patience because you certainly will not be alone on the roads.

This 4th of July weekend, roads were jammed with folks going either to the shore, or to barbeques with family and relatives. However just the thought of having to put up with holiday traffic is enough to make you want to stay home and be a hermit...

If you are planning to take a road trip this upcoming holiday weekend, you may be surprised to find gas prices higher than expected -- but the good news is, those prices should drift lower in the coming weeks and months.

More than 15.7 million travelers are expected to use the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bridges, tunnels, airports and PATH system during the upcoming Christmas and New Year's holiday season.

More than 2.2 million New Jerseyans will be traveling 50 miles or more from home for Christmas and New Year's celebrations from December 22 through January 2, a one percent increase over last year.