{"id":162,"date":"2012-11-21T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:24:15","slug":"holiday-travels-planes-trains-automobiles-just-get-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Travels: Planes, trains &#038; automobiles..Just get home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 32px; color: #444444;\">U.S. Holiday Travel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Thanksgiving and Christmas\/New Year\u2019s holiday periods are among the busiest long-distance travel periods of the year.<\/p>\n<p>During the 6-day Thanksgiving travel period, the number of long-distance trips (to and from a \u00addestination 50 miles or more away) increases by 54 percent, and during the Christmas\/New Year\u2019s Holiday period the number rises by 23 percent, compared to the average number for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p>And although heavy media attention focuses on crowded airports and bus and train stations on the Wednesday before and Sunday after Thanksgiving, when personal vehicle trips are added to the mix the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) reveals that Thanksgiving Day is actually a heavier long-distance travel day than Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>..<em><a style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #444444;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bts.gov\/publications\/america_on_the_go\/us_holiday_travel\/html\/entire.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Holiday Travel &nbsp; The Thanksgiving and Christmas\/New Year\u2019s holiday periods are among the busiest long-distance travel periods of the year. During the 6-day Thanksgiving travel period, the number of long-distance trips (to and from a \u00addestination 50 miles or more away) increases by 54 percent, and during the Christmas\/New Year\u2019s Holiday period the number [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,357],"tags":[54,47,51,52,48,50,53,10,49],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","tag-airplane","tag-christmas","tag-highway","tag-roads","tag-thanks-giving","tag-traffic","tag-trains","tag-travel","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}