[Talk-us] Road classification

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Alan Brown <adbrown1967 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Alan (self-conscious resident of San Jose)
>

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...
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