An East Bay assemblyman is proposing to give all nine Bay Area counties the ability to increase vehicle registration fees to pay for local transportation projects and environmental mitigation. The money, up to $30.5 million a year, would be spent on local roads and transit systems and for water and air quality projects.It might not seem like much, sitting as it does in the shadow of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $68 billion public-works bond proposal, but the money is vital to the health of local streets and bus lines, said Assemblyman Johan Klehs, D-Hayward."For one thing, there is no guarantee the...