Perhaps, but... 1. Roads being inextricably linked with car-dependence and urban development is clearly part of the implication 2. It is a pun! It seems a bi

Perhaps, but... 1. Roads being inextricably linked with car-dependence and urban development is clearly part of the implication 2. It is a pun! It seems a bit needlessly nitpick to call it absurd, in my book.