The Maine Turnpike saw record Thanksgiving traffic this year, according to data released Monday.

Toll plazas recorded more than 1.07 million transactions between Wednesday and Sunday, the Maine Turnpike Authority announced. That’s a roughly 1.9% increase over last year, when the road saw about 1.05 million transactions.

There were also about 10,000 — about 0.9% — more transactions this year than in 2019, which held the previous record. That year, toll plazas recorded about 1.06 million transactions throughout the long weekend.

“It is a record-setting year, a small one though,” said Rebecca Grover, director of communications for the authority.

This year’s traffic was “pretty much right in line” with the authority’s predictions that traffic would rise about 2% over last year, Grover said. Taken with other turnpike travel data, Grover said the Thanksgiving figures point to a broader return to pre-pandemic travel patterns.

Transaction figures plunged to about 717,000 in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and have risen annually since them. Last year’s total was about 11,000 fewer than in 2019, according to turnpike data.

“(Generally) we’re back to where we were or a little bit better,” Grover said.

Wednesday alone saw more than 294,000 transactions: the highest of any single day this year.

Wednesday is typically the busiest day for holiday travel, with the densest traffic typically building up in the middle of the day, turnpike officials have said. Still, the day’s traffic was about 15% higher than anticipated this year, according to a Press Herald analysis of forecast and actual data.

Friday saw the second most traffic, followed by Saturday, Sunday and Thursday.

It’s not clear how many of those drivers came from out of state. The authority did not provide a breakdown of transactions by vehicles’ state of origin.

The Maine Turnpike includes 109 miles of Interstate 95, stretching from Kittery to Augusta.