Los Angeles (CBSLA) – With COVID restrictions easing, residents throughout Southland are anticipated to journey in giant numbers over the weekend of July 4th, based on estimates by the Vehicle Membership of Southern California on Tuesday.
Based on the Auto Membership, round 3.3 million southern California residents are anticipated to journey over the vacations, beating Memorial Day weekend numbers.
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The estimate is about 46% above final 12 months’s pandemic-hit vacation weekend, however solely 5.6% under the pre-pandemic vacation in 2019.
Amongst vacationers, round 86% of persons are anticipated to journey by automobile, whereas 13% fly or use different modes of transport.
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“Automobile and air journey are each rising in power this July 4th vacation weekend as many states have lowered or lifted COVID-19 restrictions,” mentioned Filomena Andre, vp of journey for the auto membership. “We anticipate highway journeys would be the highest on file and air journey since AAA started gathering information in 2001.”
The 5 hottest vacation weekend locations for Southern California residents are anticipated to be Las Vegas, San Diego, Zion / Bryce Canyon Nationwide Parks, Grand Canyon Nationwide Park, and Yosemite Nationwide Park.
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