Interstate 435 Inner - Claycomo to Kansas

Interstate 435 expands back into a six lane freeway as it reenters Kansas City by the Maple Park community.

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Forthcoming Exit 54 consists of a split diamond interchange with 48th Street to the north and Parvin Road to the south. 48th Street spurs east to the Gracemor-Randolph Corners subdivision to the north of the Worlds of Fun theme park.

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Exit 54 leaves the beltway south for 48th Street and Randolph Road, a frontage road south to Parvin Road. Parvin Road spurs east to industrial areas. The road west constitutes an arterial through the Winnetonka community and Hidden Valley Park.

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Worlds of Fun lies just east of Interstate 435 and north of Parvin Road. Opened in May 1973, the 235-acre theme park is centered around the adventure book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, featuring thrill rides and other attractions.⁵

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Missouri Route 210, a 33.63 mile long highway east from I-29/35 to Route 10 outside Richmond, meets I-435 at the next southbound exit.

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The Kansas City beltway enters the industrial city of Randolph between the Route 210 underpass at Exit 55 and the Missouri River.

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The freeway mainline reduces to four overall lanes through the diamond interchange (Exit 55) with Route 210. Route 210 west upgrades to a freeway between I-435 and Walker Road in North Kansas City.

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Exit 55 departs Interstate 435 south for Route 210. The state highway extends east from Randolph as an expressway by Birmingham and to Route 291 at Riverbend.

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A wye interchange adds traffic from Route 210 east to I-435 south as the freeway expands to six lanes across the Missouri River.

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I-435 crosses the Jackson County line midway across the Missouri River. The Missouri River bridge was completed in 1972.

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Interstate 435 stays elevated to the levee separating Riverfront Park and industrial areas south of Levee Road. Exit 57 with Front Street follows in three quarters of a mile.

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Construction in 2013 converted the Front Street exit into a diverging diamond interchange (DDI). Front Street heads west to the Northeast Industrial District, Isle of Capri casino and I-29/35 at the Christopher S. Bond Bridge.

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Exit 57 leaves Interstate 435 south as the freeway turns southeast toward U.S. 24 for the cities of Independence and Sugar Creek.

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Interstate 435 passes over two Union Pacific Railroad lines at Air Line Junction to the south of Exit 57.

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An interchange sequence sign outlines the ensuing three exits for the city of Independence. Independence spreads to the east of I-435 from Winner Road south to 23rd Trafficway.

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The Beltway continues across the Blue River and on a viaduct above KCT, UP and BNSF Railroad lines to the west of Rock Creek Junction.

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Advancing to the folded diamond interchange (Exit 59) with U.S. 24 (Winner Road) east on I-435 south at the Kansas City community of Athol.

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U.S. 24 formerly followed Winner Road west to the Blue River and continues east into Independence. The four lane boulevard runs along Independence Avenue east to Sugar Creek and the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

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Prior to 2018, U.S. 24 (Winner Road) represented one of the last remaining U.S. highways not paired with a freeway as it traveled west to I-35/70 at Downtown Kansas City. Route 12 (Truman Road) mirrors the course of U.S. 24 east from Exit 60 to the Independence city center.

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Interstate 435 threads between the adjacent Blue River and a ridge line to the modified diamond interchange (Exit 60) with 12th Street west and Route 12 (Truman Road).

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Route 12 overlays Truman Road for 3.79 miles east to Spring Street in Independence. 12th Street and Truman Road west link I-435 with the Blue Valley Industrial area and East Blue Valley neighborhood in Kansas City.

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A fourth southbound lane opens from Route 12 to Route 78 (Exit 61). Route 78 constitutes a 12.13 mile long highway east from Western Blue Township to Route 7 in Independence.

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Route 78 ends just west of the diamond interchange (Exit 61) with I-435 at the 23rd Street bridge across the Blue River. The succeeding southbound exits join the beltway with both U.S. 40 and Interstate 70.

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Ramps depart from both sides of I-435 south at the cloverstack interchange (Exits 63A/B) with Interstate 70. The loop ramp for U.S. 40 was added to provide an alternate route to the Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadium area during the $32.4 million project to improve the I-70/435 interchange.

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Traffic bound for U.S. 40 to Leeds and the Kansas City sports complex departs from I-435 south in unison with motorists headed west on I-70/U.S. 24 toward Downtown.

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Exit 63B connects with a collector distributor roadway along Interstate 70 east to Blue Ridge Cutoff. The c/d roadway was added during 2010-12 construction.

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I-70/U.S 24 and U.S. 40 converge west of the Blue River and overlap from there to the Kansas Turnpike. U.S. 40 constitutes a commercial arterial southeast along the Independence city line to meet I-70 again at Exit 11.

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Interstate 70 east exits the Kansas City metropolitan area through Blue Springs and Grain Valley. The freeway travels 240 miles to St. Louis.

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Partial interchanges add traffic from Stadium Drive and Raytown Road from the nearby home of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals. I-435 through southeast Kansas City is also a part of the Oregon, California and Santa Fe Trails auto tour routes. All three trails originate in Independence.

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Interstate 435 widens to an eight lane freeway southward from Round Grove Creek to the Eastwood Hills community.

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Eastwood Trafficway links I-435 with Blue Parkway (historic U.S. 50) to the west and 51st Street and Sni-A-Bar Road to the east.

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Exit 65 leaves Interstate 435 for Eastwood Hills ahead of the two wye interchange (Exit 66) with Route 350 (Blue Parkway). $40 million construction started in Summer 2002 replaced 11 bridges along I-435 in the vicinity of Exit 66. This included the Sni-A-Bar bridge overpass.¹

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Route 350 angles southeast 8.78 miles through Raytown, Unity Village and Lee's Summit to I-470 and U.S. 50. Grandview becomes the southbound control city of Interstate 435.

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2002-04 construction widened Interstate 435 to six overall lanes with full shoulders through the exchange with Route 350 (Blue Parkway). Work expanded the roadway inward in place of a 40 foot grass median with a concrete barrier.¹

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Connections from Route 350 (Blue Parkway) east leads motorists to 63rd Street west to Swope Park and east into Raytown.

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A left exit ramp with two lanes ascends from Interstate 435 south to merge onto the right side of Route 350 (Blue Parkway) south. Prior to 2003, the exit joined Blue Parkway on the left side.

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Interstate 435 makes an S-curve to a half diamond interchange (Exit 63A on northbound) with 63rd Street.

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Gregory Boulevard meets I-435 south, east from Swope Park at the ensuing exit in one half mile. The beltway curves southwest from there by Swope Park to 87th Street (Exit 69).

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A confirming marker stands between the 63rd Street on-ramp and 67th Street overpass beside Winchester Business Park.

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Exit 67 leads to the adjoining Strupwood, East Swope Highlands and Park Farms communities. Gregory Boulevard crosses the width of Kansas City west to 71st Street and Mission Hills, Kansas.

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Interstate 435 begins turning west toward Grandview at milepost 68.

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The beltway advances 1.5 miles southwest to a dumbbell interchange (Exit 69) with 87th Street beyond the KCT Railroad overpass at Swope Park.

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The first sign for the Three Trails Crossing Memorial Highway (formerly the Grandview Triangle) interchange precedes Exit 69 to 87th Street. 87th Street constitutes a four lane parkway west to Blue River Road and U.S. 71 (Bruce Watkins Drive), and a five lane boulevard east to the Loma Vista community and Raytown.

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Exits 69 and 70 (Bannister Road) lie opposite of the adjacent Cerner Trails campus. Developed by the Cerner Corporation, the $4.45 billion office park includes the site of the former Bannister Mall, an indoor shopping center shuttered in 2007. Site development included the realignment of Hillcrest Road with roundabouts and two 15 story office towers in 2016. 16 buildings with 3.7 million square feet of office space are planned at the site through 2025.²

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I-435 and U.S. 71 (Bruce Watkins Drive) converge at the systems interchange (Exit 71) with I-49 south and I-470/U.S. 50 east in one mile. Exit 70 departs next for Highway W (Bannister Road) west to U.S. 71 north, the Hidden Valley community and the former Bannister Federal Complex.

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The last shield for Interstate 435 south precedes the diamond interchange (Exit 70) with Highway W west. Subsequent markers use west cardinal directions.

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Highway W follows Bannister Road west from Exit 70, 4.29 miles to 95th Street at Leawood, Kansas. Interstate 435 parallels the arterial alongside U.S. 50 west en route to Lenexa, Kansas and I-35.

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Traffic partitions with two lanes for the continuation of Interstate 435 west and two lanes for a collector distributor roadway linking Highway W and the beltway with I-49/U.S. 71 south to Grandview and Joplin and I-470/U.S. 50 east to Lee's Summit.

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Prior to the seven year, $300 million project to upgrade the Grandview Triangle interchange, I-435 proceeded south from Highway W to a left side off-ramp for both U.S. 71 south and I-470/U.S. 50 east. The original layout of the exchange was constructed before development of Johnson County as an employment center and suburban growth in Lee's Summit. Weaving traffic and increasing volume overwhelmed the junction over time, with the interchange over 40 percent above capacity when work broke ground to upgrade it in 2001.³

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A three lane c/d roadway separates traffic movements from the I-435 westbound mainline through Exit 71. A slip ramp connects Bannister Road with I-435 west next.
The speed limit along the c/d roadway was initially set at 45 mph so that motorists could get accustomed to the new traffic pattern. It increased to 65 mph after October 2008.⁴

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The c/d roadway at Exit 71 replaced the former I-435 westbound mainline through the Grandview Triangle. New overpasses were built for the beltway mainline to the south, while the original left exit from I-435 east to U.S. 71 north was retained.

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Another aspect of the Grandview Triangle upgrade was the expansion of the ramp for U.S. 71 south from one to two lanes. U.S. 71, which became a part of Interstate 49 south in December 2012, was also widened to six overall lanes.³

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A single lane ramp merges with traffic from U.S. 71 south ahead of I-435/U.S. 50 west to the Linden Hills and Indian Heights neighborhood.

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Three lanes turn south for both I-49 south and I-470 east. Interstate 470 comprises a suburban loop northeast 17.08 miles to Independence. U.S. 50 overlaps with the freeway to Lee's Summit before branching east to Sedalia.

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A high flyover carries the westbound mainline of I-470/U.S. 50 onto I-435 south. This four lane bridge replaced a two lane ramp at grade level.

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I-49/U.S. 71 travel south from I-435 to Grandview. Associated work completed by May 2008 reconfigured interchanges with Red Bridge and Longview Road to increase the ramp spacing.³

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Six lanes of traffic converge at the Grandview Road overpass as U.S. 50 joins Interstate 435 west from the left side.

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I-435/U.S. 50 overlap west for 11 miles to the Johnson County Gateway interchange with Interstate 35 at Lenexa, Kansas.

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An interchange sequence sign outlines the last three exits of the beltway west in Kansas City, Missouri.

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The initial lane drop along I-435 west occurs midway between the Three Trails Crossing Memorial Highway and Exit 73 to 103rd Street. A wooded area spreads northward to Oakwood Golf Club.

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The subsequent lane drop takes motorists onto 103rd Street, a north side frontage road to the Linden Hills and Indian Heights community.

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Nine lanes of traffic span the Blue River along Interstate 435 and U.S. 50.

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A half diamond interchange joins I-435/U.S. 50 with 103rd Street at Exit 73. 103rd Street runs west to become 101st Terrace ahead of Holmes Road. Holmes Road is an arterial from the Red Bridge community to Highway W (Bannister Road) at Boone Hills.

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I-435/U.S. 50 maintains eight overall lanes westward to Lenexa and Interstate 35. Two miles remain before State Line Road (Exit 75B).

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Exit 74 is a parclo A4 interchange with Holmes Road. Holmes Road extends south to the expressway along Route 150 and the Richards Gebaur community in the southernmost reaches of Kansas City. Highway D follows the road south to Cass County and Cleveland.

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Exits 75A to Wornall Road and 75B to State Line Road leave in quick succession with auxiliary lanes running between the associated ramps.

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Shields for I-435/U.S. 50 precede the diamond interchange (Exit 75A) with Wornall Road at Willow Creek.

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Wornall Road serves a number of apartment complexes to the south and a cluster of auto dealerships along parallel 103rd Street from Exit 75A.

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The Kansas City beltway bends southwesterly beside St. Joseph Medical Center to the parclo interchange (Exit 75B) with State Line Road.

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State Line Road straddles the border south to Country Lane Estates in Kansas City, Missouri and Leawood. North from Exit 75B, the arterial remains on the state boundary to West Parkway Center mall and 75th Street at Prairie Village. The road reduces to a residential through route to become Eaton Street in Kansas City, Kansas.

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