Log in to WRAL.com with one click using your favorite social network:
OR
Log in using your WRAL.com account:



Wrong email/password combination.

Forgot password?

Register with WRAL.com using your favorite social network:
OR
Register for a WRAL.com account using our web form.

6:11 a.m. • 5-25-13

Weather Forecast for Raleigh

  • Today: Partly Cloudy.
    • Hi: 72° F
  • Sun: Partly Cloudy.
    • Hi: 75° F
  • Mon: Partly Cloudy.
    • Hi: 80° F

Other Locations

> 7 Day Forecast

Doppler Image

Published: 2008-11-26 05:56:00
Updated: 2008-11-26 08:56:43

Gas prices, number of travelers down this Thanksgiving


Highway Traffic
Highway Traffic
print friendly

AAA Carolinas predicts that fewer people in North and South Carolina will travel this Thanksgiving holiday than last year.

For those hitting the road, lower gas prices and sunny skies are on their side. Wednesday will be mostly sunny and cool with highs in the low 50s.

Find the lowest gas prices and get the complete weather forecast. 

The travel services organization said it expects about 25,000 fewer motorists and 21,000 fewer air passengers in the Carolinas to travel more than 50 miles from home this year than did in 2007.

That's the first Thanksgiving travel downturn in six years.

An estimated 1.8 million people in North Carolina and South Carolina will still travel, however.

Gas prices in both states are less than half of what they were two months ago, when prices hit $4 a gallon following Hurricane Ike.

Prices are down by more than a dollar compared with last Thanksgiving.


10 Comments


WRAL.com welcomes your comments on this story. All comments are moderated prior to publication based on our posting guidelines. Please review them prior to posting and if your message is not approved.

View Comments VIEW ALL 10 COMMENTS

This story is closed for comments. Comments on WRAL.com news stories are accepted and moderated between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Latest Comments
I am thankful the price of gas is down.

Aw Nashville, that's just everybody running to the liquour store and back.

Whoever reported a slow down on travel this Thanksgiving has'nt been on I-95 the last couple of days.Its a madhouse!

Ditto on the drivers that can't slow down comments.

It's good there will be less drivers out there - it's the one holiday every business, every school, everybody - has that falls on the same day and has working days around it (many don't take extended vacation days like they do at christmas). That means that everyone is out there driving.... every year, like clockwork, the traffic backs up through greensboro in a way you won't see any other day of the year.

That's today! The day before thanksgiving.

Sunday will be bad too. Not as bad though.

ha! raleigh commuters slow down?! thats like asking a dog not to lick itself. its a nascar race track out there every morning on 64 bypass. im going 75mph and getting my doors blown off. people are not going to change. im saving 23 bucks on my fillups now than a month and a half ago. now thats a big difference

View Comments VIEW ALL 10 COMMENTS