Michael Bushnell
Northeast News
June 25, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — On the morning of Friday, June 26, roughly 1,500 motorcyclists, members of the Combat Veterans Motorcyclist Association, will straddle their chrome steeds and ride from the Hilton Inn at Kansas City International Airport to the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial as part of a wreath laying service to honor combat veterans who have served their country.

Assisted by the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri Department of Transportation, and Deputies from the Clay and Platte Count Sheriff’s Departments, riders will leave the KCI Hilton around 9 a.m. and travel east on Cookingham Drive to U.S. Highway 169. The riders will then turn south on Hwy. 169 South to the downtown loop and then south on I-35, exiting on Broadway Boulevard, traveling to the Liberty Memorial where they will stage for a memorial service.

According to Sergeant Grant Ruark with KCPD’s Traffic Division, motorists should be expected to be re-routed around these highways and streets for a considerable amount of time.

“We intend to give motorists alternative roadways to use without having them backed up in traffic,” Ruark said. “They need to know, however, that with any event this size, delays and detours will be likely.”

Events at Liberty Memorial are expected to last through the noon hour. Suggested alternative routes around this event include I-29 and I-435, North Oak Trafficway and Broadway Boulevard on the Missouri side and I-635 and Seventh Street Trafficway on the Kansas side. For more information about the event, visit www.combatvet.org.