Originally Posted by
BFSGrad
Not convinced that saddling a single controller with issuing takeoff, landing, and crossing clearances would result in fewer runway incursions.
No sane person would interlace at the same moment, a T/O clearance with 4 runway crossing clearances on the same runway (referring to
the new KJFK thread).
And everybody on/near the same runway on the same frequency might improve the SA of the pilots involved.
Both arguments less valid in the context of multiple a/c on finals, having been cleared to land minutes earlier and subsequent rwy crossings.
And indeed, the one rwy/one ATCO/one freq. principle might become unworkable when handling 3 active runways with a substantial number of runway crossings.