This is the crux of the article, which both you and Dave seem unable to comprehend. It seems like a reasonable concern to me.

Because it's clear that's not actually an issue, on account of the massive median strip.

That phrase does not appear in the article. Why are you using a quote that doesn’t exist?

This isn't an uncommon use of the tool - kind of a mocking TLDR I guess. In this case I can understand it's not necessarily clear that it's use it satirical. Edit: Turns out the quote was of the body text from this post