A third runway for Heathrow was formally proposed in 2007 and is projected for completion in 2040. This is an airport so overburdened people are buying and trading slots.

This isn't a Kubernetes cluster where you can add VMs in 30 seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Heathrow_Airport

And no fire trucks crossing the runways.

....they need to get to fucking fire

....if they go around kilometer of the runway the fire will turn into bigger fire

Did it? They didn’t get there so did we get bigger fire at their target?

I imagine the training will consist of something like changing the comms protocol to say “runway lights are on, control. Truck 1 confirming cross runway 4D?” prior to crossing. Double check so to speak.

Ground vehicles consistently have radio conventions that just don't fit into the aviation world. It feels like a contributor to this accident, you can hear the controller's brain skip a couple gears trying to understand the goofy word order from the truck.

Pilots and controllers speak the same language in the same order; ground vehicles just kinda say stuff.

The aviation-ized version of your proposal would be something like this:

> tower truck 1 short of 4 at delta, red status lights

That makes sense! I imagine the word order thing is just that ground vehicles are not aviation trained. They just happen to be in the same space.

Two trucks