AGENDA
Meeting
Title Concentration
of population in Abu Dhabi city center
Location: - HCT/men’s, F11 classroom.
October 10th, 2012
2:30 p.m., To 3:30 p.m.
Meeting called by: -
Mr.
Omar Al Shehhi / Chairman.
Attendees: -
Mr. Khaled Al Menhali /
Secretary.
Mr. Omar Abdul Naser / Member.
Mr. Mansoor Noor / Member.
Mr.
Ali Al Hammadi / Member.
2:30
p.m., to 2:240p.m. Introduction
I would
like to introduce the group names & their titles. My name is Omar Al Shehhi
as Chairman, Mr.
Khaled Al Menhali as Secretary, Mr. Omar Abdul Naser, Mr. Mansoor Noor and Mr.
Ali Al Hammadi as participants.
The subject
to be discussed in the meeting below is the reason why the population doesn’t
like to stay out of the city center:-
1.
Most Government departments & others are in the city
center.
2.
Shortage of public transportation outside city.
3.
Shortage of malls, parks, colleges etc outside city.
4.
Infrastructure
outside the city.
5.
Suggestions to motivate people to move outside the city.
1.
Most Government departments & others are in the
city center.
It has
been noted that most government departments in Abu Dhabi are located in the
city center; in addition working time for the employees is similar; this timing
situation leads to congested traffic on the road.
We
suggest either changing the time or moving some of these departments outside
the city center.
2.
Shortage of public transportation outside the city.
We found,
after experiments done by the department of transportation, the public prefer
using their own cars.
Mr. Omar Abdul Naser suggested to avoid these issues
to start with government departments inside the city to force their employees
to use public transportation at the beginning then to implement for other private
& semi-government departments which he thinks may work smoothly.
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3.
Shortage of malls, parks, colleges etc outside the city.
Mr.
Mansoor Noor strongly agreed with this point since he is staying outside Abu
Dhabi city & notices that we need more focus on the above requirements.
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4.
Infrastructure outside the city.
Mr. Ali
Al Hammadi disagreed with this point by noticing most of the outside cities are
fully completed cities.
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5.
Suggestions to motivate people to move outside the
city.
Mr.
Khaled Al Menhali suggested:-
·
Move some government departments outside the city.
·
Force, by adding new laws, large & medium
departments to build offices next door to resident buildings.
Mr. Omar
Al Shehhi suggested:-
·
Abu Dhabi needs a metro like Dubai which will reduce
a lot of traffic.
·
Stop issuing new driving licenses & more control
by Ministry of Interior with proper channels.
Meeting report
Problem: Concentration of population in Abu Dhabi city
center
Date of meeting: 10th October 2012
Time of meeting: 2:30 p.m., To 3:30 p.m.
Venue: F11
Group members:
Chair: Omar Al Shehhi.
Secretary: Khaled Al Menhali.
Participant: Hedley.
Venue preparation:
Grouping of chairs round tables
Agenda:
1.
Most Government departments
& others are in the city center.
2.
Shortage of public
transportation outside city.
3.
Shortage of malls, parks,
colleges etc. outside city.
4.
Infrastructure outside the
city.
5.
Suggestions to motivate
people to move outside the city.
Omar Al Shehhi opened the meeting by saying that most
government departments in Abu Dhabi are located in the city center; in
addition working time for the employees is similar; this timing situation leads
to traffic on the road.
Ø
Most Government departments
& others are in the city center.
It has been noted that most government departments in Abu
Dhabi are located in the city center; in addition working time for the
employees is similar; this timing situation leads to traffic on the road. We
suggest either changing the time or moving some of these departments outside
the city center.
Ø
Shortage of public
transportation outside the city.
To avoid these issues to start with government departments
inside the city to force their employees to use public transportation at the
beginning then to implement for other private & semi government departments
which we think may work smoothly.
Ø
Shortage of malls, parks,
colleges…..etc outside city.
With this point since Mansoor is staying outside Abu Dhabi city
& notices that we need more focus on the above requirement.
Ø Infrastructure
outside the city.
Most of the outside cities are fully completed cities.
Ø
Suggestions to motivate
people to move outside the city.
Move some government departments outside the city; force, by
adding new laws, large & medium departments to build offices next door to
resident buildings.
In conclusion we thought that:
1. Abu Dhabi needs a metro as Dubai which will reduce a lot of traffic; stop
issuing new driving licenses & more control by Ministry of Interior with
proper channels.
2. Move some government departments to outside the city; force by adding new
laws, large & medium departments to build offices next door to resident
buildings.
3. Force the people to use the public transportation by managing it with the
government departments and the private companies.
4. Add more
activity outside city to attract all categories of the population.
5. Add more
health care.
The meeting was well controlled by Omar Al Shehhi
and Omar Abdul Naser. All members contributed to the discussion.
