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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | Talk 00:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I was researching this because it seemed likely that it could be de-prodded. Unfortunately, my research led to quite the opposite conclusion. This appears to be one man's idea, and not actually a recognized form of junction. The recognized forms of junction don't have as odd-ball a name, but are the properly recognized ones. Several of the junctions listed as TOTSOs are what are actually called, in highway engineering, free-flow interchanges. To quote one of the many sources on just one of the junctions listed here as supposedly TOTSOs:
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(help))So not only is this one man's idea that hasn't been peer reviewed and incorporated into the general corpus of human knowledge, it's an original extension by Wikipedia editors of that idea — an extension made by Wikipedia editors on several language Wikipedias, no less. (So have a care when searching for sources to exclude information that has been taken from the Dutch and German Wikipedias.) There's no evidence that it's even used as an alternative name for a free-flow interchange. This is just double original research: Wikipedia editors' novel expansion of an idea that has yet to even escape its inventor. Uncle G (talk) 02:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]