Being on the road Thanksgiving day can be a bit of a crap shoot. It’s hit-or-miss as far as places to eat or shop, so you can’t really count on your favorite establishment to be open when you get there. Here’s a list of restaurants and retail businesses open on Thanksgiving Day 2013. The information here is gathered from various sources …

AAA projects 43.4 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 44 million people who traveled last year. This decrease falls just shy of last Thanksgiving’s four-year peak since the recession-driven declines in 2008-2009 when Thanksgiving travel fell by 25 percent. The Thanksgiving holiday travel period …

This Thanksgiving holiday is expected to be one of the years most heavily traveled periods. Using input from fellow I-95 travelers, state transportation data and our own established traffic trends, we’ve put together this helpful guide to make your trip safer and a little less painful. Let’s begin by saying that the absolute worst time to travel is the Wednesday …

Without a doubt one of the most congested portions of I-95 is in Virginia. More specifically, south of Washington, DC. Using historical traffic data the Virginia Department of Transportation has compiled a helpful list of the most problematic zones of congestion and the times to experience highest levels of traffic. Areas experiencing the heaviest congestion: I-95 Northbound from the I-64 …

ETLs could be HOTs if HOVs are included What happens is this: Crews, cranes and concrete trucks converge on Interstate 95 for months and sometimes years, and the typical motorist, unhappy about having to drive on the American autobahn at any time — much less when it is being repaired — curses the nuisance.         read the …

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – It’s going to take at least a year for the Fairfield rest stop plazas on I-95 to be finished, but when they are drivers will find a new look and new services. The state is working with a Connecticut company, Project Service, to build and manage the 23 … read the full story…

AAA Travel projects 34.1 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the upcoming Labor Day holiday, a 4.2 percent increase from the 32.7 million people who traveled last year. Eighty-five percent of travelers (29.2 million) will travel by automobile, an increase of 4.3 percent  from 28 million last year. The largest share of travelers (46 percent) will depart …

Popular Mechanics magazine has named Interstate 10 in Arizona as the most dangerous road in America. Although Interstate 10 runs the entire width of the U.S., the 150-mile stretch from Phoenix to the California border is particularly dangerous, with this section through lightly populated desert seeing up to 85 deaths in a single year. The entire state death toll in Arizona …