Here's how I set my desktops up. Desktop switcher works so well I changed to 9 desktops even though there isn't much on some of them.

The attached image is the first View. I'm using Live Desktop and the same background appears on all.
In this case a plane happens to be flying by.

The building on the right has what I call my transportation icons. Each of them links to a view. Originally the icons were the originals, numbered two through nine.

All of the other views have only one transportation icon, at the top of the right building. It was originally the number one icon. I replaced it with an image. It links to View one.

I don't have much of a sense of aesthetics and was in a hurry to finish, but the resulting transportation system is quite zippy.