I'm guessing that it's because I put safe exit blocks on it, which I believe are needed.

Are they? Each exit already has room for 1 train from each direction, without blocking.

My goal was to make in-place buffered upgrade for Symmetrical Cross 4- or 3-way intersection. Also my rails are aligned to 48x48 grid, so intersection had to fit inside 5 such nodes. Results if intersection is built as stand alone or if middle rails are removed after upgrade: Set 1 76 Set 2 64 Set 3...

Placing pavement removes some foliage, but not everything, which I think is fine. But for cases when I want to clean everything it would be nice if I could just pour some flamethrower fuel everywhere killing everything, or something similar. Placing pavement repeatedly to remove all grass is tediou...

TL;DR Some way to remove all shrubberies and grass from parts of the factory. What ? Item that is placeable the same way different paths are, but when placed would remove all grass and bushes from area. Why ? Placing pavement removes some foliage, but not everything, which I think is fine. But for ...