A Dublin City Councillor says there needs to be an audit on the amount of street clutter clogging up the streets.
Janet Horner says the number of poles, bollards, bins, lights, signs and electrical boxes facing pedestrians is too much.
The local authority committed in a past development plan to reduce them by 20 percent but there's no figures to compare any changes.
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Councillor Horner says this clutter can cause chaos for people with reduced mobility:
"City planners will sometimes look at the city and say that's fine - you can walk down that street, you can get from one end to the other."
"But they don't imagine themselves to be walking down that street with a buggy."
"And they don't imagine themselves to be in a wheelchair."
"They don't think about what happens when it's bin [collection] day."
"Or they don't think about what happens when a lot of people are standing at a bus stop."
"So now the footpath is very crowded"
"That's the mentality we need to be in."
