{"id":324162,"date":"2026-05-20T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:25:30","slug":"aaa-predicts-record-travel-over-memorial-day-weekend-when-you-should-hit-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324162\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA predicts record travel over Memorial Day weekend, when you should hit the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Travelers can expect a lot of traffic on the road this weekend as AAA is forecasting record breaking travel for Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>AAA says they are expecting 39.1 million people to travel by car and 3.66 million to travel by air.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Kandace Redd joined Eyewitness News to share more details.<\/p>\n<p>AAA says the worst times to travel will be between noon and 9 p.m. on Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The say the best time to leave will be after 9 p.m. and before 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Memorial Day travel can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.aaa.com\/2026\/05\/45-million-americans-planning-memorial-day-weekend-getaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aaa.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Travelers can expect a lot of traffic on the road this weekend as AAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-324162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}