If you want to get people to drive less, or use their cars less to get from point a to point b, you have to provide an alternative.
In order to do that in a way where you can change the behaviour of the most people possible for the least amount of money spent, you have to do it in heavy urban areas.
Transit
Rail
Urban Planning
Please tell me how the carbon tax will push us to do those things better.
Winnipeg is #6 on the list of most populated cities in Canada, and people here just dream about LRT or anything other than the ####ty bus system. Literally no amount of money will change that. So what do you get? More sprawl = more driving. Every development is moving further and further out, and there is literally NO plan for any kind of transit system.
Not that I expect us to be like Europe due to how the population density is different, but one would at least think that it would make sense to have every new development connected to a transit system that takes people to the major centers in the city.
I'd imagine you will find similar issues in most other cities as well.
Kind of a strange idea to think that the 'carbon tax' will get us there.
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