Over the past couple of years, Kansas City Chiefs fans haven’t had the Missouri Department of Transportation on their Christmas card lists. The I-70/I-435 interchange just northwest of Arrowhead Stadium has been under construction, which created game-day headaches for many of those approaching the Truman Sports Complex.
Now that the work is complete, Kansas City fans can begin to appreciate how the changes have improved the traffic flow around the stadium. And on Tuesday, MODOT gave Chiefs fans something else they can appreciate as they approach the stadium on game days: the erection of signage on I-435 to the southwest of the stadium that designates a two-mile stretch of the interstate as the “Joe Delaney Memorial Highway.