Dec 23, 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Monday, Dec. 23, is the last peak travel day with the end of the year holidays in full swing. AAA predicts record breaking travel numbers once again. "I am excited and so is he – I don't know, Luther – he's coming too for the ride,” Taylor Schubert said as him and his dog head to see family in Iowa. Everybody including the dogs are pumped and ready to hit the roads or maybe for you the skies or even maybe you're taking the train as that time of the year, when coming home or going home, becomes our top priority. "Oh my gosh it's Christmas, it's wonderful – to be able to have our college kids home and then being able to go see family,” Julie Vandeven who traveling for the holiday said. View the latest Weather Alerts in the Kansas City region on FOX4 "At risk for sounding like a broken record triple A is forecasting a record-breaking travel period for the yearend holidays,” Nick Chabarria, a spokesperson for AAA said. But what has been and will continue to show itself over the next few days, that is helping with traffic is the fact that the Christmas holiday fell in the middle of the week. "That's going to disperse a lot of the congestion – it's going to disperse it throughout the week, so not everybody is trying to get to their destination on one or two days,” Chabarria said. One-hundred and nineteen million Americans hitting the roads that just the amount of people driving more than 50 miles. 2.3 million of them here in Missouri. There is one benefit of traveling out of the Show Me State and Kansas as well, as both are in the top 10 states with the cheapest gas in the entire country. So fill up before you go and of course there's plenty of things you need to pack. Download the FOX4 News app on iPhone and Android If you're picking somebody up from the airport, use that cell phone lot, and follow the flight landing times on your phone. KCI expects more than 500,000 people to come through the airport over the next two weeks.
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