The councillors shared their ideas for the Ignite the CBD campaign during the May meeting of Dubbo City Council.

Cr Bill Kelly said a recent visitor to Dubbo called the city "dull and drab".

"My first thought there was that he must have had a trip across the LH Ford Bridge," he said.

"If we're going to ignite the city we've got to get fair dinkum with that LH Ford Bridge and make it the entryway to our city.

"I'm adamant about that. We need flags, we need some sort of fanfare on that bridge.

"It's the only area in town where people have got two or three minutes as they cross the bridge to reflect on something without being distracted in one way or another.

"It's a fantastic, wasted resource that LH Ford Bridge."

Cr Ben Shields said he would like to see the farmers markets moved from beside the river to the main street.

"I've done a far bit of travelling around the world to different countries and the one thing's that stuck in my mind is that in various places in Asia when they have very similar markets to what we do they actually put it in a commercial street," he said.

Cr Shields said in Asia they temporarily close off the street and the markets trade alongside the existing retailers.

"It doesn't hurt the existing traders, they actually like it because it encourages more foot traffic to that area," he said.

"It's an idea that I think has a lot of merit, especially since we don't have a big giant highway going down our main street that other cities are unfortunate enough to have."

Cr Kelly, who was one of the organisers of the Talbragar Street fair in 2012, said in his experience there was great support for street markets.

"It was the worst day ever for Dubbo on that particular day (weather-wise). But it does show the support from the community was there, there were still plenty of people about,"?he said.

He said the markets provided an opportunity for Dubbo's fringe traders, that is people who trade outside of the CBD, to get exposure.

"A lot of people wanted to bring their wares into Talbragar street and show it off and we encouraged them to do that and that worked extremely well without having to introduce some of the itinerant traders from away.

"There's plenty of businesses in town that I'm sure people in our community don't even know exist."

Councillor Tina Reynolds said it would be a great idea as long as the businesses were on board.

However, Cr Reynolds said it was far easier to get authorisation to close a road in Asia than it would be in Dubbo.