Originally Posted by travelinterpreters
It should be about 45 min, but the difference here is that you will be driving 70mph for most of those 45 min and seeing mostly farm land until the last 10 min of your drive.
As someone who lived all my life in another city with hellish traffic, the ride from OP to MCI is a dream if you take 435 (KC's version of a ring road). There are slightly more direct routes, but this one never slows down unless there's some sort of emergency/accident, or horrible snow, which is quite rare. It's wonderfully predicatable most of the time.