Editing Interstate 630 (section)

==History==
The project was first conceived in the 1930s and was first planned by the Pulaski County Planning Board in their 1941 report.<ref>{{cite book |title=Arkansas Highways |publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department |volume=31 |editor=Bill Stanton |edition=Winter |year=1985 |chapter=I-630 History: "A dream becomes a reality" |page=10 |location=Little Rock, Arkansas |url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/historic_bridge/Early%20Arkansas%20Highway%20Magazines/1980-89%20Volumes%2026-35%20pdfs/Volume%2031%20%E2%80%93%201985/Vol.%2031,%20Winter%201985,%20No.%204.pdf |access-date=October 24, 2011 |archive-date=October 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013054933/http://www.arkansashighways.com/historic_bridge/Early%20Arkansas%20Highway%20Magazines/1980-89%20Volumes%2026-35%20pdfs/Volume%2031%20%E2%80%93%201985/Vol.%2031%2C%20Winter%201985%2C%20No.%204.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> After having many higher powers deny their plans, construction was started by the city of Little Rock in the 1960s as the '''East&ndash;West Expressway''' or '''8th&nbsp;Street Expressway''' and was not originally an [[Interstate Highway System|Interstate]] or an [[List of Arkansas state highways|Arkansas state highway]].<ref name="wm" /> In the 1970s, US Rep. [[Wilbur D. Mills]] was responsible for the route's addition to the Interstate System by rounding down the mileage allocations of all other states, then adding the rounding differences to Arkansas's total; this kept the total nationwide allocation within the original limit of {{convert|42500|mi|km}}.<ref name="wm" />

After it was added to the Interstate System, Little Rock initially renamed it for Mills; however, when the [[Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|Arkansas State Highway Department]] (AHTD) formally brought it into the state highway system as required by Arkansas law, they removed the name, as their policy at the time prohibited the naming of state highways after individuals.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} AHTD later changed its policy and readopted the Mills name early in the new millennium. As of autumn&nbsp;2019, the highway is now named "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}