@bl00d@jvnkyard its just there to drag the game out. once you portal out of a junction it opens the junctions connected to it, and future runs you do have to drive through them all (until you make use of the highway skips)
@bl00d@jvnkyard but don't ever touch those big towers outside of the main story. the data for them talks about it opening a portal, and they STILL DO THAT outside of the story trigger. so if you flip three of them it starts the storm and a portal at a random position and i lost a run due to this once.