Originally Posted by
portmanteau
Atco doesn't say, by the way you are lined up on the taxiway because that fact is not apparent to him. It's night remember.
That's why they have radar screens installed even in VCR's, with a perfect straight radar trail of AC's final approach, aligned parallel next to 28R extended centerline. But the sole ATCO with his high workload, especially with all those ground and crossing rwy movements, in VMC, with visual approaches, had to keep his eyes outside. A second pair of ATCO eyes might have caught more/earlier...