It sounds like a broken record that has to repeated every September but the dangerous and illegal tradition known as the Ride of the Century makes its infamous return this weekend. With this tradition brings antics that while seen at other times of the year – tends to be at the very peak during this specific event.
It will not help that good weather is expected for the weekend AND IDOT and MoDOT have weekend closures on alternate routes, especially the one on 55/70. Although it is eastbound the closure will put more I-70 cross country traffic through this section of 270.
But the big story is the Ride itself, and it is not expected that the admins will be at the event due to other commitments that just happened to be on the same date. (One of them has to be at work, and another has to go to work right after the event.)
I will not go into specifics on this post except that between 2 PM and 4 PM on Saturday there could be at least 2000 motorcycles and even ATVs on the public highways – causing traffic delays and other headaches. Most of the participants will be having GoPro cameras mounted and some will even live stream the event. Instead, you can go back to these links from previous years. This is a very dangerous tradition that dates from 2000 and this group loves to make its way down this section of 270 (they have virtually done it every year except for 2013). (Note they did in 2014 but the event was so low profile there is not a lot of footage thus there was no post – and it happened while North County was already heated from the Ferguson protests.)
They do all the stupid stuff including alleged instances of nudity (notable incident from 2010 on the canal bridge is not being posted due to the NSFW and suggestive content), wheelies, burnouts, blocking all traffic, and other dangerous stuff.
Chain of Rocks/I-270 