Squidport, is it too much to ask?

If you make a road right up to the port and put a place with many tasks (e.g. the Kwik-E-Mart) near the SP entrance you should get more foot traffic there. My church faced the SP for a while and when church or Sunday school let out, many of my people would then flock to SP and hang out there until I gave them another task. But yeah, some visible tasks on SP would be nice.