Yep. A market that size will bend traffic toward it. It's like economic gravity. :)

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2017, at 1:47 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> For systems w/ a POP level equal to the towns along Route66, or, for that matter, even the pop of some of the smaller island/nations, I would agree.
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> But how many POP9+ towns were along Route66?

All the major cities along US 66 are still major cities connected by I-40.

A Pop9 world in the OTU isn’t going to get cut off because it’s too expensive to build transport infrastructure from the outer system to the main worlds.

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