meeting minutes

Meeting

Date: 24.06.2012

Location: M06

Section: CSM

Time: 16:00

Chairman : Mohamed Shams

Secretary: Hasan

Participants: Omar & Ahmed Saleh

Topic: Traffic congestion in Abu Dhabi

Agenda:

How serious is the Problem?

Improving the existing traffic system

Parking

Traffic lights

Raising age of licence holders

Public transport

Recommendations.

Traffic Congestion Meeting Minutes:

Mohamed Shams called the meeting in order to discuss the above agenda and he started it by reminding us how serious this problem is.

· Traffic Distribution should be more organized to avoid conflicts, accidents and congestion. Building more bridges and tunnels is one of the ideal solutions for the problems that we talked about Five years ago, the situation was better because the traffic signals were fewer than now. 

· The roads must be renewed and well distributed. Closing a whole road suddenly might lead to more traffic congestion and accidents. Therefore, providing an alternative road is an important solution. Making a straight long bridge over the whole city with small exits to the areas and blocks is a good idea. Building underground parking is one of the most brilliant ideas which allows us to get benefits and saves us a lot of time and space.

· Synchronize traffic lights and fix the technical problems to avoid accidents. Build an expansion for the streets, specially the highways.

· Provide more alternative vehicles like public transportation e.g. buses, trains and trams, will reduce the capacity of the cars on the roads. Provide traffic awareness for the drivers to deal with these kinds of problem so they can help us to save time. Lecturing and tutoring the drivers before they get the license about these kinds of problems.

Meeting Report

Place : ADMC - M06

Date : 25/June/2012

Presentors :

Chairman : Mohammad Shams

Secretary : Hasan

Participant : Omar , Ahmad

The Chairman Mohammad Shams opened the meeting by introducing the members to each other and stated the agenda of the discussion that took place in M06 under the supervision of Mr. Hedley Butterfield.

The topic was the traffic congestion in Abu Dhabi and how can we solve it.

We started the agenda by talking about how serious the problem is. Mohammad Shams began by giving his opinion and saying that the problem is very serious and it can get bigger because the number of cars on the road is increasing and the number of roads isn’t sufficient we all agreed with him and  Omar also added his opinion by saying this is a problem, and this problem needs to be solved before it gets out of hand. I was writing the main points of what we said.

After that, it was time for discussing the solutions for the problem and they were:

Improving the existing traffic system, Improving parking spaces, controlling traffic lights in a more efficient ally , raising the age of driving license registration and public transport.

After a long debate between each other about these solutions, each individual stated which was the most effective solution in their opinion was.

Omar fixated on  fixing the roads and building bridges is the most effective way to solve the traffic congestion, because it will provide more roads to drive on, but it needs to be done as soon as possible.

I stated that the best solution is to organize traffic lights properly some agreed but Omar didn’t because he thought that not all streets of abu dhabi have traffic lights, so this solution will only work in certain places.

Ahmed stated that the best solution is to restrict driving for people less than 25 years old. Mohammad Shams disagreed with it because he believed that people at the age of 18 work and have responsibilities they definitely need a car to get them from point A to point B, and Omar agreed along with Shams because in our society , a lot of people around that age get married  then Ahmed changed his opinion and said it's better if we educate the drivers properly. 

Mohammad Shams agreed with Omar's opinion because he saw how the roads in Japan are not as busy as Abu Dhabi even though they have more cars than us, and thats  because the design of roads there is better and having bridges helped them a lot.

In conclusion, the four of us contributed to this meeting it was fairly organized and had a lot of good solutions since most of us traveled abroad and saw how their roads are far more developed than ours the meeting went by easily with the guidance of the chairman who directed the meeting in a proper way.

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