more than 5.4 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more<\/a> for the Fourth of July holiday.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s up slightly \u2014 0.5% \u2014 since last year, but it is 8% higher than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n
AAA spokesperson Anlleyn Venegas said despite gas prices being higher than they were a year ago, more people are still driving to their destinations.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey’re finding ways to make it work. They’re adjusting,\u201d she said. \u201dSo maybe, you know, they’re trying to find more affordable hotels, or maybe they’re staying at a friend’s or a family member’s house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The most popular destinations for Southern Californians include San Diego, Palm Springs, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, according to AAA.<\/p>\n
“In fact, one of the busiest freeways is going to be the 15 (freeway) from San Diego to Palm Springs,\u201d Venegas said.<\/p>\n
At San Diego International Airport (SAN), officials are expecting 800,000 passengers to pass through between Sunday, June 28, and Monday, July 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are expecting about a 10% increase compared to last year at this time,\u201d SAN spokesperson Nicole Hall said. \u201cAnd San Diego is a beautiful place to visit during the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Thursday and Monday being the busiest travel days for the Independence Day holiday, airport officials said you should give yourself plenty of time to avoid congestion.<\/p>\n
That was what happened to Adam Hall when he returned his rental car at the airport rental lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’d never seen a rental car line that long, and maybe it’s just a product of (this) being the holiday, but we were just in a line that was probably like 60 to 80 yards long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether by plane, train or automobile, more Southern Californians are traveling this holiday weekend. According to the Automobile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-384448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384448","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=384448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}