Re:anything (Score 1)

It seems to me that the best solution is taxation and subsidization. All that needs to be done is to increase the tax on gas and use the revenue generated to subsidize public transportation, if you do this enough eventually people will decide that it is too expensive to drive themselves and start using public transportation which in turn will be cheaper since the people who don't want to use it will be helping pay for it. We don't need any sort of an expensive and pain in the ass tax system when taxing is as easy as increasing the tax on gas, which in and of itself rewards people more or less directly on the cause of concern, the usage of gas. There is no need to individually regulate citizens when a general solution will have the same effect. The actual rate of taxation will be dynamic in order to fine tune the system, In my opinion a good place to start would be a rate at which people don't have to pay to use the bus system. As the economy sits now I believe that anything below about 4$/gallon and people will continue to drive to work.

The most general solution is quite often the best.