RIBA Backs Road Toll Plan

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) fully supports suggestions that the government should contemplate introducing satellite road pricing.

RIBA President George Ferguson, speaking from Los Angeles today, said: “This coincides with our strong support for more measures to reduce the threat of climate change as itemised in our ‘Manifesto for Architecture’ and the ‘Las Vegas Declaration’ that I instigated at the recent American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention.

“It is an irony that I should be making these comments from LA, the Mecca of the motor car, but I am here to discuss the urban environmental and sustainability issues that we have to tackle locally, nationally and globally if we are to ameliorate the current damaging trends for which the built environment, and the West in particular, has so much to answer. “As a profession we must do all we can to help persuade the public, our clients and Government at all levels of the importance of this issue, but I would not want to find a Jaguar driver paying the same price as me for my Smart Car! It is important that we strengthen comparative rewards for fuel efficient vehicles whether through fuel pricing or engine size.”