Maybe constructor can answer this question.
I seem to remember that when the terminal and apron was dug out the soil was used to extend the taxiway at the 26 end. No doubt calculations would have been made to how much soil would be available. So is the reason why the taxiway didn't go to the end was that they did not have enough soil? Would this be the same possible reason why the planned taxiway extension at the 26 end will also not quite get to the end of the runway, as bringing in material from off airport to build up the land is very expensive?
Pedestrian crossing in set down/pick up area well marshalled at that time of night.Two of the marshals did not appear to speak English !!!
I also wonder if having marshalling of a pedestrian crossing is the airports final and only solution to trying to keep the traffic moving in the drop off zone and through the rest of the airport. Make no mistake, this is already a major issue that will return next summer.
So the airport gains a nice new duel carriageway into, around and out of the airport, but as has already being witnessed, around 90 to 95% of all traffic heads into the drop off area so all this traffic needs to get into a single lane. Once in the single lane the traffic needs to get past the busy crossing point that has to be marshalled and that is the problem. This crossing point often marks the start of the traffic jams that even now in mid September means that traffic can still head down the hill towards Parkway.
What the dueling will achieve is that two lines of traffic will tail back towards the Ibis roundabout meaning that is will take longer for that roundabout to get gridlocked when the drop off zone gets clogged up but the end of the queue to drop off area times will remain around the same as all this traffic will still need to feed into a single lane.
I already came up with a radical solution of closing off the centre island, which would remove the crossing points and making the closed off drop off lane to that island a second passing lane for when cars double park, which they do despite there always being plenty of spare kerbsides available on the return leg.