Traffic.

Road conditions.

Gas prices.

You have a lot to think about if you're driving this Memorial Day weekend.

So we asked triple J for some advice.

We can expect that this is going to be a very busy Memorial Day weekend for travel.

In fact, we expect over 500,000 Kentuckians to travel, whether by taking a road trip or flying or cruises, trains or what have you.

And that's really what we're seeing nationwide, where we expect overall about 44 million people to travel.

Now, the wide majority of Kentuckians and really all Americans will be taking a road trip.

About 87% of Kentuckians traveling will be going by vehicle.

So the roadways are going to be very, very busy, especially Thursday and Friday will be very busy days.

If you're heading out those days, you want to leave in the morning, if you can, to avoid some of the heaviest traffic since there are so many people taking a road trip.

A lot of people have been asking about gas prices.

Now, we don't expect any big surges going into the Memorial Day holiday, I think, right now.

The national average price for a gallon of regular is right around 361 or so.

That's up a you know, a penny or two from a week prior.

Here in Kentucky, we're looking at 335.

That's actually down a penny from a week ago.

So we don't expect big changes from what we're seeing today with those gas prices.

The good news is that rental cars are actually down about 17%.

So significantly, about $439 is the average rental booking, rental car booking right now.

That's good news because we've seen those prices be higher as we came out of the pandemic and those rental car companies didn't have the fleets that they did going into the pandemic.

Some other costs to keep in mind.

Flights were actually up about 2%.

The average booking for Memorial Day getaway is about $779 for a domestic flight.

Our airports are going to be very busy, including our airport right here in Lexington, as well as really all of them across the country.

In fact, they're expected to be the busiest we've seen since big travel year we had in 2005.

So going back to these pre-pandemic levels, that means you want to get to the airport earlier than you normally would for for your flight.

We're looking at folks probably having a little longer way getting through security, getting checked in and through security.

So be sure that you just plan for that.