Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Have our guests done any recent research into street designs and how we lay out our streets? Can that be contributory to dereliction and vacancy? A street that is car-dominated, has two lanes of traffic, parking on either side of the road and narrow footpaths is not a nice place to be as a pedestrian. It may not be a place where one would like to shop. The whole street then becomes worn down and a thoroughfare to somewhere else, another part of town. Are our guests aware of any research that has been done in that regard?