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.
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