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Tony Rafferty
Principal transport planner at Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure and project manager of the Eastern Transport Plan (ETP) 2035.
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Oct 5, 2026
What is the Eastern Transport Plan?
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6:30Tony RaffertyGUEST
Uh, whenever we went out and asked for public views on the vision and objectives of the plans back in 2023, um, we had around 24% of respondents s- told us that they want to cycle to work.
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6:45Tony RaffertyGUEST
Whenever you added walking and public transport into that, around 66, 67% of respondents wanted to travel sustainably for work purposes in the, into Belfast City Center.
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6:57Tony RaffertyGUEST
Um, and yet we have 50% of people are driving, another 5% are passengers in cars, uh, and we've only 1% of people cycling.
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7:07Tony RaffertyGUEST
So it's looking at what the barriers are, and, uh, whenever you're, you're talking about active travel or cycling in particular, it's the lack of safe cycle infrastructure is probably the big barrier.
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Sinéad LeeHOST
And I think importantly, um, before people say, "Oh, you're just gonna get rid of all of the cars," cars will always be there for those journeys that are needed.