Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

8:20 AM PDT on July 19, 2017

BART tests Clipper card-only entrances (ABC)
City of El Monte plans bike/pedestrian bridge, bike lanes (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Will you end up paying more for gas (as you should) because of cap-and-trade extension? (Sacramento Bee)
Governing interviews CalSTA secretary Brian Kelly about how the coming gas tax will be used
Why affordable housing is part of cap-and-trade (KPCC)
Wall Street Journal says the cap-and-trade vote by Republicans is a “betrayal” and “act of political self-sabotage”
- LA Times has a more nuanced, informed take on that political fallout
Stop thinking you can solve climate change by yourself, and take on polluting corporations (Guardian)
Ports of L.A., Long Beach set to release Clean Air Action Plans today (Press Telegram)
LA County will build new homes—and sprawl (Daily News)
Lawsuit says adding a carpool lane to Highway 50 will increase traffic (Sacramento Bee)
San Bernardino approves toll lane project (Construction Dive)
The solution for too much traffic is to remove highways (Urbanist)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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