GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – It’s one of the busier travel weekends of the year.
“Heading up north, gonna do a little camping, gonna enjoy the weather,” Mike Dunham of Neenah said. “Hopefully on Saturday it’ll hold.”
Over 800,000 Wisconsinites are expected to travel over 50 miles this Memorial Day weekend.
“The traffic was a little heavy. It’s a little annoying, but what do you do?” Mitch Steger of Kimberly said.
In the Fox Cities, motorists may be looking at some longer than usual driving times with the continuous work on I-41 near Grand Chute and Appleton.
“You’re going to see holiday traffic and commuter traffic mix on Friday, and it is going to put a lot of pressure on the I-41 system to the point that the people that are traveling on I-41 on Friday can expect significant traffic impacts, expect backups, expect to be delayed,” Mark Kantola with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said.
Kantola said the ongoing construction on that section of the highway has affected even typical weekend travel.
“I would highly consider an alternate route just around the area where we have the lane closures,” Kantola said. “Any traffic that can get off I-41 in that area, use another route. It’s just gonna be better for the system as a whole.”
“Hoping that since we’re leaving a little later that it’s a little bit died down,” Steger said.
That extra waiting is something those traveling outside northeast Wisconsin are looking forward to leaving behind.
“Be nice to be out in nature and just not have to worry about any of that,” Steger said.
AAA is predicting this to be the second busiest Memorial Day travel weekend ever.
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