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>I wish they were smaller and single-lane.

Smaller and single-lane as in individual half-width belts that can be placed independently? I think it would be more of a pain to play with, because now only would you now have separate left- and right- belt items, but also have more complex rotations to be able to convert one belt into another at a corner. Eg to convert a right-belt going east into a left-belt going south, you need to rotate just the tip of the right-belt, not the whole right-belt.

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>I need resources to be on the other lane of a belt

A single splitter and a little space around it can swap a belt around if you need to. Or better yet, find the place where you're mixing the two items on the same belt and make the change there.

    A ╗
      ╠══ A/B
    B ╝

    A ══╗
      ╔═╬═ B/A
      ╚═╣
    B ══╝
(The ╬ in the second diagram is a crossing of belt and underground belt.)

For single-item belts where everything's on one side and you want everything to be on the other side, it's even simpler.

        ═╦╗
    A/- ═╝╚═ -/A

    -/A ═╗╔═ A/-
        ═╩╝
The ╦ and ╩ are a vertical belt feeding into the side of a horizontal belt. Because the horizontal belt has another horizontal belt to its left, the point where the vertical belt touches it does not make a corner.



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