DUBLIN Corporation is considering six millennium projects, the city manager, Mr John Fitzgerald has said.
The corporation is also to set up a limited company, in conjunction with business and tourism bodies, to "consider suitable projects and arrange for funding", it was announced yesterday.
The first of the six projects being examined by the corporation is described as an attempt to "re-establish O'Connell Street as Ireland's premier urban space".
It involves removing the maximum "possible amount of traffic to bring the street back to the pedestrian", the redesign of the "public domain", and attempts to deal with the "poor elevation of the street and sub- standard shop fronts".
Project Tree 2000 would see the corporation planting trees throughout the city between now and 2000.
The location of decorative lighting on many of the bridges over the Liffey is being considered as part of a Waters of Life project. Mr Fitzgerald says Dubliners do not "always have a true appreciation of the value of these rivers and their environmental, ecological and leisure uses".
Another proposal involves an international competition to design the area to the front of Heuston station.
Mr Fitzgerald said discussions had already begun with local land-owners with a view to "achieving the creation of a major prestigious urban space there for the next millennium
The final project included in the short-list is a new Liffey pedestrian bridge which is to complement the Ha'penny Bridge, according to Mr Fitzgerald. The structure would stretch between Eustace Street and North City Quays.