Traffic was so heavy before a celebration of the Royals’ World Series championship that some drivers parked along the side of the interstate and walked.

But police spokesman Tye Grant says that overall the fans were “happy and classy and waited their turn to find a place to park.”

People taking public transportation also found themselves waiting anywhere from one to three hours. Kansas City Area Transit Authority spokesman Cindy Baker described the waits as “rough” and that conservative estimates are that 100,000 people were shuttled to the celebration before 2 p.m.

She says the crowds were “definitely more than expected.”

She says that with many school districts calling off classes, school buses were called in to help transport the masses. No official crowd estimates were immediately available.

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