The train footbridge near my house which took a day to build in the 30s (so says the local rag) is being replaced. Fair enough, it's an old concrete structure and I imagine they have a lifespan and it's probably best to replace them before they fall on a passing train.
It's apparently seven weeks of work (which started at 8am on the dot this morning with a valley-filling grinding and sawing, forcing me to get up and close the window), won't be complete till October. And they have had to remove all the equipment from the local park (which they council installed two months ago). I'm not joking, they've cleared about a football field of space and it seems they're building an actual road to the site. Admittedly they can only access from the park side, the other side is an alley between two houses (I presume it was wider at one point, then someone squeezed a house in).
It seems an epic amount of work (plus a long circumnavigation for me from the local bus stop, bah – they forgot to mention at any point whether there was going to be temporary replacement, so I assume the omission is my answer) for what is a very basic footbridge over two tracks. Still, it explains the cost of a train ticket, I suppose.