Originally Posted by beamer
Daft place to have an airport even if it has been there since at least WW2.
Not the only city like that. When Bristol chose a site for its airport it picked Lulsgate Bottom, an airport developed during the war to teach instrument flying largely because of its poor weather record. By coincidence, or maybe not, it too had traffic lights (strictly speaking, more like level crossing light) on a road which passed close to one end of the runway back in the 70s for a good few years. I worked there for a while and remember that it could be a bit embarrassing is you forgot to let the traffic go wafter the aircraft had done its thing.