David Brooks wrote:


The reg seems to support the statement that the "Taxi To" instruction
permits you to taxi across ALL other runways, even if they are active.

It does. You can cross anything to get to your assigned runway.


At Paine field, most hangars and the two flight schools are on the east
side, and it is routine to get the instruction "Taxi to runway 34L at A4,
cross 11". I don't really know why they throw in that little redundancy;
perhaps there have been enough transient pilots in the past wasting a
transmission to get permission to cross 11/29.

Some FAA regions require that the controllers specifically state any
runways that need to be crossed, so you will never get a clearance as
simple as "Taxi to rwy 34" if that route takes you across a runway at
any point. We don't require that here in the Northwest Mountain Region.
If at any point you come up to your assigned runway you may not cross it.


All
runways are always active, you have no way of knowing if a runway isn't
being used short of a notam.


Or the ATIS.

If the ATIS states that a runway is closed then it will be a notam.