Meeting reflection

We are three students from class CLG. We’ve set the meeting in room J12 on Tuesday 19^th March 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Rashed Alremeithi, H00247559, as chairman started the meeting. We were discussing the problem of traffic in Abu Dhabi, which is a problem in a city filled with life. Faris Alshamsi, H00202586, talked about some factors that result some streets to have more traffic than other streets. He mentioned e.g. how some streets are small, and cars pass through them all the time, or try to due to traffic. Accidents are also part of this problem. When people drive into an accident area they slow down the movement of the street traffic. Even though there aren’t a lot of accidents, they are still a part in slowing down the street traffic. Faris also mentioned how there are lots of cars, people leaving at the same time of work, and how some people drive below the street speed. Abdulrahman Aljunaibi, H00237389 made some suggestions and solutions to reduce the traffic, such as enlarging the existing roads, building a metro, providing lane for public transportation only, and applying Salik system in Abu Dhabi. Rashed also suggested that sharing a car between people can reduce traffic, like three people would use one car to go to work and back.

Rashed opened and closed the meeting in a good way. The other two members participated and shared their suggestions and what they think of the problem. Everyone was aware of what they were talking about and did a good job. 

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in-Class Meeting: Agenda, Minutes & Recommendations

Date of meeting: 21st March 2013

Time of meeting: 1:00 p.m.

Venue: J12

Group members:

Chair: Rashed Alremeithi

Secretary: Abdulrahman Aljunaibi.

Participant: Faris Alshamsi.

Venue preparation:

Grouping of chairs round tables

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Agenda:

Changing the existing roads

Make people use public transport

Provide exclusive lanes for public transportation

Provide Salik system in Abu Dhabi

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The chairman Rashed Alremeithi opened the meeting at 1:00 p.m.

Changing the existing roads

This is has been done in a few roads, and it takes a long time to complete. It’s an efficient way though. We can increase the size of the streets that are common to have traffic in them every day. There are also some streets that are oversized, so we can try to decrease the size of a street, and increase another one.

Make people use public transport

We shouldn’t focus on just bringing buses. We have to build a metro in Abu Dhabi, just like the one in Dubai. It’s going to be able to get people to all places around the city. The more people use the metro, the less people on the road and so less traffic too.

  

Provide exclusive lanes for public transportation

As for the remaining buses, we shouldn’t sell them, but we should keep them and provide a lane that’s only for public transportation vehicles. If we don’t do that, public transportation vehicles will be roaming the street, and due to their big size they will block other cars and result in more traffic.

Provide Salik system in Abu Dhabi

Applying Salik system and bringing it to Abu Dhabi can be another solution for the traffic. Main roads of Abu Dhabi will require any car that goes through it to have a Salik card. Since Salik requires money, we can predict that fewer cars will be on that road.

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1- Enlarging the roads is a good idea, but it’s going to take a long time to change every road.

2- Building a metro is a good idea and a fast way of travel. It costs lots of money and time.

3- The exclusive lanes for public transportation are related to enlarging the roads. This is going to cost a lot of money.

4- Applying strict rules like Salik can be a good way to ensure that fewer people will be going on the street in their cars.