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The North East Scotland Regional Transport Strategy in its current form supports 3 major road-traffic generators: the AWPR, Balmedie dualling and the new runway; the schemes intended to "balance" these pale into insignificance: a new wooden platform at Laurencekirk, more frequent crossrail services (a good idea but still only half-hourly for the foreseeable future), vague plans for cyclists etc. Lots of people will benefit from the new runway, but how about a significant pledge: all cash spent on the airport will be matched by a similar amount spent on getting people TO the airport without their cars. There is more pie in the sky talk about a fixed link to the airport that just won't happen, but there's already a fixed link to the airport: Dyce station. It just happens to be on the wrong side of the airport. Would it be impossible to dig a tunnel under the runways and put one a moving walkway in it?