The Otago Regional Council is considering building a new bridge across Dunedin's Leith as a World War I memorial.
The Government is encouraging councils to put up new projects as part of commemorations next year marking a century from the war's beginning in 1914.
At a meeting on Wednesday, the council agreed to investigate a multimillion-dollar walking and cycling bridge across the Water of Leith near Dunedin's stadium to link two waterfront cycleways.
Several councillors objected that Otago already has at least 140 war memorials.
The council's deputy chairperson, Gretchen Robertson, says the people of Otago need to think if there needs to be another regional monument and if the Dunedin waterfront is the right place.
Ms Robertson says ideas for the bridge include symbolic poppies or designing the bridge as a monument itself.
