Little Changes

About Little Changes

Welcome to the new Department for Infrastructure podcast ‘Little Changes’ Each episode we’ll be taking a closer look at what ‘Little Changes’ we can all make to our everyday journeys to make them more sustainable. And that might mean walking, wheeling or cycling for more of our short every day journeys, accessing public transport when we can, or indeed when it’s time, making that change from petrol or diesel to electric vehicles. What ’Little Changes’ can you make?

Publisher

DfI

Category

government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 10 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What is the Eastern Transport Plan?

   Transport Specialist Karen McShane, Dermot O’Kane, and Tony Rafferty discuss the Eastern Transport Plan's vision for a sustainable and connected future.

2. 

   12 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Exercise Valentina

   Host Dr. Emily Carter interviews emergency preparedness expert Valentina Rossi on how agencies collaborate to prepare Northern Ireland for severe weather events.

3. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Building Resilience in Communities

   For this episode of Little Changes we're finding out more about building resilience within communities, helping them prepare for emergencies, and in this case we're talking about weather related emergencies.

4. 

   16 Apr 2026

   Toome Flood Gates at Lough Neagh

   For this episode we travel to Toome, on the shores of Lough Neagh, to find out more about the management of the Lough's water levels, flood prevention and the impact on the local eels fishery.

5. 

   26 Mar 2026

   Electric Vehicles & decarbonising our transport

   In this episode, EV driver Jude McMurray shares her experiences of driving an EV for the past 11 years, we also chat with Brian Donaldson from CBI who oversees the EV infrastructure's working group, and DfI's Director of Planning Policy & Transport, Sian Kerr.

6. 

   22 Jan 2026

   DfI Rivers Team and Newry BID

   In this episode we discuss how communities can live more sustainably in the face of climate change. We travelled to Newry to chat with some members of the Newry BID Regional Community Resilience Group, along with DfI Rivers team, about their positive working relationship.

7. 

   12 Jan 2026

   Little Changes - Active Travel 2026

   In this episode we take a look at the importance of active travel on our health.

8. 

   6 Nov 2025

   Impact of Belfast traffic congestion on businesses

   In this episode we're joined by Clare Guinness, CEO Belfast Chamber and DfI Deputy Secretary of Transport & Road Asset Management, Colin Woods. We discuss the impact of traffic congestion on Belfast city centre businesses, and the collaborative work to improve things this festive season.

9. 

   10 Oct 2025

   Belfast City Centre - traffic congestion

   In our first episode we talk with Wesley Johnston and Liam McEvoy about  traffic congestion in Belfast City Centre in the run up to Christmas last year, and what we can do differently this year to ease the situation this year.

10. 

    16 Jul 2025

    Active Travel

    You are welcome to our NEW Department for Infrastructure podcast ‘Little Changes’ Each bitesize episode we’ll be taking a closer look at what ‘Little Changes’ we can all make to our everyday journeys to make them more sustainable, as well as healthier and enjoyable! Stay tuned!

Inside a recent episode

What is the Eastern Transport Plan?

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Whenever you added walking and public transport into that, around 66, 67% of respondents wanted to travel sustainably for work purposes into Belfast city centre. And yet we have 50% of people are driving and other 5% are passengers in cars. And we've only 1% of people cycling. It's looking at what the barriers are and whenever you're talking about active travel or cycling in particular, it's the lack of safe cycle infrastructure is probably the big barrier. There are others, but that would be the main one. And with regard to public transport, when we ask people what we can encourage you, they tell us that it's frequency of service, reliability of journeys and journey time improvements. […]

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• Karen McShane
• Dermot O’Kane
• Tony Rafferty

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