Today’s Headlines

Featured Headline: Josef Bray-Ali notices that part of the Venice Boulevard Bike Lanes has vanished as part of a redesign of the street near San Vicente Boulevard.  We’ve got a call in to LADOT, and we’ll let you know when we hear from them.

• Bev. Hills Unified Spending $15k a Month to Kill Funding for Westside Subway (Patch via Curbed)
• Expo Still Months from Opening (Park-LaBrea News, LAT)
• State Panel: Let’s Put High Speed Rail Loan on Hold (LAT)
• Developer’s Option Could Take “Rio” Out of “Rio de Los Angeles” Project (Creek Freak)
• In Memoriam: Lots of Dead Cyclists in 2011 (Biking In L.A.)
• New Year, New Council Leadership (Daily News)
• In Praise of Very Narrow Streets (Cap’n Transit)
• Breaking News: Its Warm Out (Daily News)