40 Million to Travel Over July 4 Weekend Saturday, July 01, 2006 =20 PHOTOS Click image to enlarge STORIESLINKS =E2=80=A2AAA: Record July 4 Travel Expected Despite Fuel Prices =E2=80=A237 Million Expected to Travel for Holiday Weekend =E2=80=A2Train Service Back to Normal After Circuit Breakers Found to Be Ca= use of Outage =E2=80=A2Consumer Prices Boosted By Energy Costs, Higher Than Anticipated =E2=80=A2Gas Prices Down Near One-Year Low =E2=80=A2Government Agency Raises Summer Gasoline Price Estimate =E2=80=A2As Gasoline Goes Up, U.S. Motorists Change Their Habits WASHINGTON =E2=80=94 The roads and airports will likely be pretty crowded t= his weekend. AAA over 40 million people will travel over the Independence D= ay weekend. That's a record.=20 AAA spokesman Mantill Williams says more than 34 million of those holiday t= ravelers will be going by car. He says high gas prices may mean people make= some plan changes, but the cost won't cancel trips. Williams says the floods in the Northeast likely won't have a big impact on= travel. An air travel expert predicts "one of the heaviest if not the heaviest" Jul= y 4 weekends ever. But Terry Trippler of Travel Passport says there shouldn= 't be too much of a "crush of people" at airports. He says many people will= take a longer vacation because the Fourth falls on a Tuesday. =20 =20 Roger & Amanda La France