>> Angelenos will get to ride the subway all New Year’s Eve, and free rides “between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. the night and early morning hours of Thursday, December 31, and Friday, January 1.” Trains will run before and after those hours, but expect to pay regular fares before 9 pm and after 2 am.

>> Long Beach got bicycle boxes along Second Street at Bayshore and Marina Drive! See the photos at LAist.

>> The L.A. River’s getting de-graffitied — to mixed responses. Joe Linton of L.A. Creek Freak looks into the debate and concludes there are “better uses for federal stimulus monies than a short-term paint-out.”

>> Angelenos get mounds of trash, a lot of which ends up at the Puente Hills Landfill:

This graveyard of our wants and needs sits hidden in plain sight along a truck-choked stretch of the 60 Freeway in the San Gabriel Valley. Here, the verdant Puente Hills, the result of eons of seismic uplift and erosion, have been reshaped by half a century of consumption and waste. Nearly 4 million tons of junk and muck, one-third of Los Angeles County’s trash, is added to this man-made mountain each year.

Photo by Laura Fisher

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