meeting reflection

We had a meeting of 3 students in room J12 on Tuesday 19^th March 2013 at 1:00pm. Rashed Alremeiti, H00247559, was chairman, Faris, H00202586 was the participant and I was the Secretary Abdulrahman Aljunaibi, H00237389.Rashed opened the meeting, which was to discuss the traffic in Abu Dhabi; Faris said that there are several causes of this problem when Rashed was describing the issue. Faris said that  one of the causes is there are a lot of cars in Abu Dhabi that go at one time, especially in the morning. Rashed and  I agreed about this point because when we wake up and go to the college we see that is one of the causes; everyone goes to work at one time. Also Faris mentioned small streets which cause a lot of accidents and will led to  traffic jams. I suggested that there is a solution to our problem such as, changing the existing roads. This has been done in a few roads, for example Zayed Bridge. In addition make people use public transport such as buses. For Mr.Hedley said there is now a huge difference between the quality of buses between 15 years ago and today. We shouldn’t focus just on buses; we have to build a metro in Abu Dhabi and that is one point of Abu Dhabi government strategy in 2020. Applying a Salik system in the main streets will be a solution to provide less traffic. We could have a subway station but Mr.Hedley said that will be costly and Abu Dhabi is an island. The effective solution Rashed and Faris agreed was applying a Salik system which will be useful because it will let people who don’t have Salik go to other roads. All agreed that a Salik system will be useful.

Rashed started and ended the meeting in a good way and he was an effective chairman. Faris was the participant and he was supportive. Mr Hedley was a good listener and he participated in some solutions to the problem. I was explaining some of the solutions. We all had a good understanding of the topic and it was a useful meeting