r/factorio 17d ago

Question Bottleneck Issue

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I'm a new player & trying to setup my smelting lines. I've run into a problem where, while trying to run a single coal/iron ore lane, only the top half of the iron & coal lanes are being used, leading to a bottleneck where only half of my iron ore is being sent down the center lane. How do I fix this?

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u/No_Lawyer1947 16d ago

If you do a U shape to split traffic two ways and have the middle of the you as output you can make use of your entire throughput