Thanksgiving weekend travel likely busiest in years

HARTFORD—This year’s Thanksgiving day travel period is expected to be the busiest in more than a decade, according to AAA.
For many Connecticut drivers, the plan Wednesday was to get an early start to try and beat some of the worst of the highway congestions.
“We’re trying to avoid the later-in-the day, people getting off work, that kind of traffic,” Ken Corroon, from Greenwich, said on his way up to Massachusetts to visit family.
The drivers that did opt to beat t