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No results in GBooks or GNews. Searches in the Indianapolis papers for both the current and former names only yielded brief construction blurbs or businesses using it as a point of reference. This is a barely two-mile stretch of road that's called "freeway" only because it has exit ramps. It doesn't have a state highway number or any significance, and therefore seems to fail WP:USRD/NT Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:12, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:12, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:12, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
• Keep WP:N doesn't expire just because the road has been depreciated; still an active road, despite most of its use now being as a local road rather than an airport spur, and the only reason it has no state designation is because of the state's policy of having no numbered roads outside I-65 and I-70 within the 465 loop. Nate • (chatter) 22:41, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

• @Mrschimpf: It never had a state highway designation to my knowledge. And that still doesn't address the absolute lack of sources. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Have found this source which discusses its history in detail back to 1960; "airport expressway" + "indianapolis" unearths some other quality links (which lead to newspapers.com; my WPL access shows there's plenty more in the Star discussing its history. Nate • (chatter) 04:13, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

@Mrschimpf: The blog appears to be a self published source. I combed through every hit for "airport expressway" + "Indianapolis" on newspapers.com and all I found was trivial mentions or business ads using it as a point of reference. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

• Keep. It's an adequately-written article about what certainly was a notable road. And there's nothing that requires a highway article to be limited to only numbered routes: the province of Ontario alone has six. AlgaeGraphix (talk) 00:42, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

• @AlgaeGraphix: Sources. Where are they? I couldn't find a single one. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

• Keep. The renaming of "Airport Expressway" to the less descriptive, but honorary "Sam Jones Express" elicits enough confusion that information seekers will want to know what and why. Sources include:
  • IBJ on renaming: https://www.ibj.com/articles/8526-airport-expressway-renamed-for-sam-jones
  • Study citing the expressway for unusually high traffic levels: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jtrpaffdocs/43/
  • Report with figure dating construction of new ramps: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/imr/4/
  • Indianapolis International Airport Master Plan Development, 1992. Describes growing traffic problems and need for redevelopment: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indianapolis_International_Airport_Maste/5vw0AQAAMAAJ
  • History of the Interstate Highway System in Indiana: Route history, 1975. Describes some factors in decision making leading to creation: https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Interstate_Highway_System/By0pAQAAMAAJ*:
  • 1969 City Council ordinance renaming a section of Raymond Street to "Airport Expressway": https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ccci/article/download/11903/11937
  • Entry describing reason for renaming to Sam Jones Expressway: https://indyencyclopedia.org/sam-h-jones/
  • — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaireeodell (talk • contribs) 23:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC)