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Holiday Travel Increasing This Year
Travel this holiday weekend will be significantly greater than it was last year at this time.

Triple-A predicts a 5.4 percent increase in travel nationally, 8.3 percent in Illinois, compared to Memorial Day weekend 2009.

Nick Jarmusz, spokesman for the Aurora-based Triple-A Chicago Motor Club, says the increase is due to people feeling more comfortable economically than they did last year or in 2008. "And because they may have foregone trips in the last couple years, there's just a lot of pent-up desire to get out there, get on the road and go somewhere this weekend," he says.

1.74 million Illinois residents will travel more than 50 miles from home. Of those traveling Illinoisans, 1 1/2 million will do so by car, 100,000 by air, and the rest by some other means.

The roads will be thick with cops this weekend looking for seat belt violators, especially at night, as part of a statewide "Click it or Ticket" campaign.

(Illinois Radio Network)
05 27 10 by Newsroom
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