Today’s Headlines

• 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