Prompted by lower gas prices, motorists will hit the highway in big numbers this Thanksgiving holiday period, predicts Towson-based AAA Mid-Atlantic.

The travel advocacy group forecasts 31.7 million people nationwide will venture on the highway 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a 2.7 percent jumpfrom last year. Of those on the road, 599,000 will be Marylanders.

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