It seems like you can't state that so definitively, right?
After all, on the road section from the cats to the gargoyles, there could be a branch leading downwards – to the home town of the lower player? Then it would be a connecting road, and connected to the road from the lower player.
Please explain if I'm wrong...
2. Vic, you know the template structure, right? How can you say that this is a secondary connecting road? Can there be one entrance from two players with the same guard? Isn't that a standard template?
3. Dirty Player... you write "from the point of view of the rules" – is it written like that in the rules? ;)