Reflection on meeting
Place : ADMC - M06
Date : 25/June/2012
Present :
Chairman : Mohammad Shams
Secretary : Hassan
Participant : Omar , Ahmad
The chair Mohammad
Shams opened the meeting by introducing every member to each other and
described the agenda of the discussion that's going to take place in M06 under
the supervision of Mr. Hedley Butterfield.
The topic that we
wanted to find solution for is traffic congestion in Abu Dhabi.
The first thing that
was assigned in the agenda was talking about how serious is the problem.
Mohammad Shams as the director started by giving his opinion by 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; we all agreed to him and I
also added my opinion by saying this is a problem, and this problem needs to be
solved before it gets bigger and we need to contain it as soon as possible. Hassan
was writing the main points of what we said.
Afterward in the agenda,
it was time for discussing the solution of the problems and the main solutions
were:
Improving the existing
traffic system, Improving parking, controlling traffic lights in a more
efficient way, raising the age of driving license holders and public transport.
After discussing
between each other about this solution, every individual of us stated what the
most effective solution in his opinion is.
I said fixing the
roads and building bridges is the most effective way to solve the traffic
congestion problem, because that way we will provide more roads for the drivers,
but it needs to be done in a short time so it can be an efficient strategy.
Hassan said that the best
solution is to organize traffic lights properly; some agreed but I didn’t
because I thought that not all streets have traffic lights, so this solution
will only work in certain places.
Ahmed stated that the
best solution is to restrict driving for people younger than 25 years old.
Mohammad Shams disagreed with this idea because he thought that people at the
age of 18 work; they definitely need a car to get them to their work, and I
agreed more because in our culture, a lot of people around that age can get
married; then afterwards Ahmed changed his opinion and said it's better if we
educate the drivers.
Mohammad Shams agreed
with my opinion because he saw how the roads in Japan are not as busy as in Abu
Dhabi even though they have more cars, and that’s all because the design of roads
there is better and building bridges helped them a lot.
In conclusion, the
four of us contributed efficiently to this meeting; it was well organized and
had a lot of great solutions since most of us saw other countries and saw how
their roads are more developed than ours; the meeting ran smoothly because the
chairman directed the meeting in a professional way.
