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The travel group projects 609,000 Marylanders, or 11 percent of all stater residents, will travel 50 miles or more thisMemoriap Day. That’s up 3.9 percent compared with last year. Roughlu 83 percent of the travelers, or 508,000 people, will drive to theire holiday destination, a 5.8 percent hike from last Cheaper gas prices and discounted travepl packagesare what’s fuelinyg the boost, AAA said. A gallonh of regular gas in Baltimorw Wednesdayaveraged $2.29, down from $3.799 on the same date last year. “Althougb gasoline prices have spiked inrecenr weeks, pump prices are stil sharply lower than they were at this time last year,” AAA Mid-Atlanticd spokeswoman Ragina C.
Averella said in a “That factor and plentiful travel bargains have Marylandersz feeling better about taking a trip this Memorialk Day holiday weekend and hopefully throughjthe summer.” AAA Mid-Atlantic expects 41,000 Marylanders to traveol via airplane and 60,000 to utilize a train, bus or othetr mode or transportation. Nationally, AAA projectes 32.4 million people to travel 50 or miles thisMemoriakl day, up 1.5 percent from last year.