NASCAR Weekend: GBA Traffic Team Gets a Front Row Seat at the Kansas Speedway but the Cars They’re Watching Aren’t on the Track

On the weekend of October 2nd and 3rd, with the sun shining brightly and plenty of fuel, Greg Biffle took his second trip to Victory Lane at the Kansas Speedway. It takes every member of a race team to get to Victory Lane, and teamwork is the key to a successful race day.

If teamwork is critical on the track, it’s just as important off the track as hundreds of thousands of race fans converge, creating the potential for monster traffic tie-ups. This NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event went like clockwork off the track as well as on, thanks in great part to the team of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/KCKS, the KCK Police Department, Bob Budd of Budd Industries, and GBA’s traffic engineers, who worked from the roof of the press box to coordinate signals and facilitate traffic movement before, during, and after the event.

Members of the team used computers, cameras, and fiber optic networks to monitor traffic and change signal timing and function as needed to keep traffic flowing. The upshot: following Sunday’s race, with more than 100,000 fans in attendance, the entire parking lot was cleared in just two hours! Now that’s a race!