WBUR TODAY: The best day to drive this week
❤️ Donate Monday, December 22, 2025 ☀️ Sunny, with a high of 32. Good Morning Boston, The Patriots officially clinched their first playoff appearance in four years with last night's fourth-quarter comeback win against the Baltimore Ravens. (In case you went to bed early, you can watch the highlights here ). Oh how fun it is to drive: After what was predicted to be record-breaking Thanksgiving , Fourth of July and Memorial Day weekends, AAA is expecting us to break another travel record over the end-of-year holiday season. "We're starting to sound like a broken record here," AAA Northeast spokesperson Mark Schieldrop told WBUR's Cici Yongshi Yu. ( Same , Mark.) Over the final two weeks of 2025, more than 2 million road trips are expected to go through Massachusetts, according to AAA. If you're worried about traffic bogging down your holidays, here's when they suggests hitting the road: The b...