Roland Perry wrote:
In message
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ember.org, at 20:19:31 on Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Recliner
remarked:

In effect, by closing the busier of the two taxiways, you'd be reducing the
effective capacity by about 24 gates. At least this slashing of capacity
should dramatically reduce the queues at Immigration!

How busy is it? I don't recall ever seeing a plane using it. Certainly
not the nose-to-tail queue you imagine it to be.

Actually, if you look at it, the bit you want to close actually has two
separate routes. Planes from the circular satellite and the main South pier
could both be moving to/from the runway without interfering with each other
or using the North taxiway.

So, in effect, you'd be closing two thirds of the routes between your
blighted area's 30 gates and the runway.