How Should We Pay for Driving: Script from talk given to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

This talk explores a fairly simple but hugely contentious question: how should we pay for driving? Professor Greg Marsden (Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds) argues that whatever you think of the current arrangements for paying for transport, there is a need for a new way forward because of the change to electric vehicles. The transition – where part of the population is driving electric and part fossil fuel vehicles – will become increasingly unfair. Using examples from around the world, Greg discusses options and opportunities and advance the debate. Doing nothing is an option…But not a good one.