holiday traffic
Seasonal road gridlock
Holiday traffic is the increased volume of vehicles on roads during major holidays, when many people travel simultaneously to visit family or vacation destinations.
The phrase typically implies congestion, delays, and frustration: We left early to beat the holiday traffic.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and summer holidays produce the heaviest holiday traffic in the United States.
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- gridlockComplete mutual obstruction
- bumper-to-bumperVehicles packed without gaps
- bumper to bumperVehicles nearly touching ahead/behind
- stop and goIntermittent motion pattern
roadtrip · highway · freeway · tailgates · brake lights · delays · jammed · crawling · exodus · getaway · long weekend · weekend · vacation · interstate · merging · rush hour · honking · frustration
- traffic studiestravel time, peak hours, congestion, pneumatic tubes, GPS tracking
- traffic typesrush hour, morning commute, evening commute
- trafficcongestion, gridlock, bumper to bumper, bumper-to-bumper, stop and go
- traffic termsrush hour, congestion, peak hours, gridlock, bottleneck
- seasonal annoyancesmosquito, mosquitoes, pollen, hay fever, allergies
holiday trafficlight traffic
Few vehicles on road
open road · open highway · smooth sailing · deserted streets
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