Red light for airport runway crossing | Letters

Richard Norman (Letters, 31 October) suggests among other things that a cheaper option than a ramp over the M25 for Heathrow’s third runway is traffic lights, so that vehicles could cross the runway between planes. It has been tried. Back in the 1960s, the bus I went to school on from Wilmslow to Hale Barns had to cross Manchester airport’s runway, which had traffic lights to stop vehicles crossing when a plane was coming. This meant we were often late to school, and the excuse that