Day 206 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

So, after ending yesterday with a failed attempt to put a Hypertube junction on the ceiling of a piece of my belt trunk, and realizing there's not enough room, my first thought was to just widen the trunk from single-width to double-width, as it approaches the junction. I figured since I already want to implement double-width trunks later, it was a reasonable solution. So, I made the above blueprint.

Somehow, after finishing this, I realized..... I don't actually need to build Hypertube junctions the way I did in the last save, I.E. I don't have to squeeze in both an exit and entrance, inside the trunk. I can just..... only have junctions. Not having junctions for so long has really screwed up my brain.

So, I hopped into creative mode again and prototyped a few different versions, to make sure I'm understanding correctly how they'll work.

Unfortunately, I don't like the way the first two look, and the third one (just a plain junction) doesn't behave the way I want. What I want is to have paths coming off of the main trunk, but have those paths be "opt in" only. So, if you just want to travel the main trunk, that requires no inputs at all. The standalone junction doesn't give you that. So, I really hope I can think of something to make the "triple-branch" junction look nice.