The Green Party today launched its ‘Vision for Dublin’ and said rezoning in Dublin’s city and surrounds should be a thing of the past. The vision includes:

• Doubling time for pedestrians to cross at traffic lights
• 30km speed limits in residential areas
• Trees on every residential street
• Develop the South Docks and Poolbeg Peninsula as flagship eco-districts 
• More allotments and community gardens
• New Luas lines from Poolbeg to Rathfarm and Tallaght to Saggart

The vision for the inner city is:

• Provide allotments in the Phoenix Park, and an open-air café in Stephens Green
• Provide cycle paths and walkways along our canals.
• Build the Sutton to Sandycove cycle-way 
• Set up a Dublin Rivers Taskforce
• Make Dublin Bay clean and sparkling
• Provide a car-free College Green
• Join the Luas lines in Dublin - down O’Connell Street, Dawson Street and College Green and continue to Finglas 
• Provide urban beaches over the summer months in city parks 
• Transform the Quays into a Liffey Boulevard that’s car-free one Sunday a month
• Natural flood protection with green eco-parks near waterways