Could the creepy heads roll? Brunswick West's parade of concrete faces began life as an art project to make crossing a "lonely" footbridge a little less scary.

But the ravages of time and vandals have turned them into an "inappropriate" spectacle that the local mayor says scare children and should be removed.

"I don't think it's appropriate for children to walk over the bridge and feel scared outside in the public, looking at that," said Moreland City Council mayor Helen Davidson.

Cr Davidson told the ABC she found the bridge "creepy" and couldn't "imagine a mother walking over the bridge with a child".