

If you’re at the beach, you either try to get out of town as early as possible on the day you’re leaving, or you stay late, spend the day on the beach and come back later. But I mean, on your way home, it’s either leave early or stay late. Reada: I always hate to be married to specific times, because that can get a little funny. So it’ll be interesting to see how that changes.īrett: What do you think the best times would be to drive down to the Eastern Shore and drive back after the weekend? I mean, are there specific times? Do you have to go before 6 a.m.? What would you say to that? So each year, people gauge what they did the year before, and how they’re going to plan for the next season, and we didn’t have one. It opened last May, but Memorial Day wasn’t the typical Memorial Day. And I’d like to remind people that this is the first year that they have cashless tolling. Last year, we had the void in travel, so there wasn’t a lot of traveling with the COVID restrictions. And a lot of people are creatures of habit and it changes year to year, they try to avoid what happened last time mentality. I mean, the best advice I can give you is to leave early or late, and avoid that middle portion into the evening rush hour.īrett: And Mary, would you agree with that? I work middays, so that’s when we start to see the traffic getting really bad. Reada: I mean, I think the easiest thing is to avoid the middle of the day.
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So we’ll start with a question that a lot of drivers want to know, which is: What are the worst times to really drive during Memorial Day weekend? When should you really avoid ? Obviously, you both have been in traffic for most of your career, watching different Memorial Day weekend traffic patterns. īrett: So we’ll kind of get started with our conversation. But yeah, for Memorial Day, most folks are going in one direction. And I’ve been stuck in the holiday traffic for Christmas as well, myself. Mary: Inherently, yes, I would say Thanksgiving. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
