Question to LHR crews
At night when reds and greens are on, why do you stop when taxiying around the airfield when there is a red bar but happily cross them to line up on the departure runway? Yes you might be going on in the correct order but it seems a bit odd to me and others that you will happily cross a red stop bar to enter an active runway.
Not getting at you in any way, just we have recently had some paperwork on reducing runway incursions. This has brought the above into focus a little.
If you wonder why we dont give reds immediately for you on line up, come visit us in the dark and you will see how much workload there is at night when those lights are on.
Cheers