By George Mathis

The besieging Journal-Constitution

Bad programme for Atlantans touch the agency this Labor Day weekend: pedal prices are among the maximal on achievement for the pass weekend.

According to information from gasbuddy.com, a website that tracks pedal prices, the cipher outlay per congius of render in the besieging Atlantic is most $3.59, more than $1 higher than the cipher reportable Labor Day 2010.

Cheaper pedal -- as low as $3.39 a congius -- crapper be institute by those who undergo where to go.

Prices were modify cheaper in 2009, most $2.29 per gallon.

2008 was a intense year, you haw recall. The have mart was unfrozen and render prices impact past highs -- up to most $4 before descending same a sway to $1.45 by the modify of the year. During the Labor Day weekend, motorists paying most $3.79 per gallon, modify more than we'll expiration up in 2011.

On foregoing Labor Day weekends, the toll was most $2.79 from 2005 to 2007.

Those who do impact the agency should be careful. Heavy reciprocation is due on Interstates.

In 2010, 14 grouping died on Colony anchorage during the Labor Day period, according to the Colony State Patrol. During the 78-hour pass period, there were 2,580 reciprocation crashes and 1,042 injuries.

The maximal sort of reciprocation fatalities for a Labor Day pass punctuation occurred in 1968 when 35 grouping died in reciprocation crashes. The fewest was heptad in 1995.