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The best and worst times to travel Houston freeways this holiday week

Seth Livingston
ABC13 Staff
Nov 19, 2018, 5:05 am
Expect traffic to be up to 73 percent busier this week in certain areas. Photo courtesy of ABC13

This article originally appeared on CultureMap.

This Thanksgiving week, expect to see some major delays around our freeways. According to AAA, more than four million Texans are expected to travel for the holiday. That's almost five percent busier than last year.

The agency has also predicted where you will see the slowest traffic, and when:

Some of the heaviest traffic is predicted Monday, November 19, on Beltway 8 East, from 249 to US-59, around 3 pm. Traffic is expected to be nearly three times busier than usual.

Also on Monday, on the Southwest Freeway, try to avoid a big spike in traffic around 5 pm, with a 23 percent increase in traffic.

On Tuesday, November 20 you can expect a whopping 73 percent increase in traffic around 2 pm on I-45 — the Gulf Freeway.

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