The relocated Patsaouras Bus Plaza provides LA Metro’s transit users easier connections to bus lines serving Union Station. By widening both sides of the 30-year-old El Monte Busway Bridge, the project team created a 200-ft-long, 18-ft-wide concrete platform with benches, ticket machines and wayfinding kiosks, all covered by a steel canopy.

ENR Midwest has announced the finalists for 2019 Project of the Year.

Crews are nearing substantial completion of the $20 million Boston Landing Station, which will return commuter rail service to the Boston neighborhood of Brighton after more than 50 years. “We’re into final trackwork, signals and inspections,” says Keith Craig, director of development at NB Development Group, Boston.

Two priority rail station projects are moving forward in Providence and Pawtucket/Central Falls, R.I., both with “built-in ridership in densely populated areas,” says the Rhode Island Dept. of Transportation spokesman Charles St. Martin.