On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Alan Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adbrown1967@yahoo.com">adbrown1967@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>But - what percentage of local traffic or through traffic ends up on those roads? It's relative importance that matter. If you need to go through an area - what do you take?<br>
<br>Same concept applied to city labelling - look at a globe some time. It's not unusual to see "Thule, Greenland" labelled, or "Iqaluit, Nunavut". Why? Because they're the most significant towns in the area - even though they have tiny populations.<br>
<br>On the other hand - what about San Jose, CA, 10th biggest city in the US? They always label San Francisco first - even though San Jose is bigger, with a million people. It's perceived importance.<br><br>-Alan (self-conscious resident of San Jose)<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Just because it's locally important doesn't make it a trunk road, though. My driveway is locally important to me and takes 100% of traffic in and out of my garage...<br>