The OFFICIAL Chatting Thread

[Wazif]

European Foundation for Quality Management = EFQM :) one of the most stringent criterias for Quality Management
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DEPAKOTE SICKNESS

[hiten86]

Thank you

[Atefeh]

Oh well, its a boring day. I so wanna go home and sleep. I had to walk from Nissan yesterday in heels with my laptop, IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN cuz there were no cabs............ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[hiten86]

owwww. . . must've been one hell of a walk!
If it was for a meeting . . i'd rather have cancelled the meeting

[SSense]

Work hard guys :P Im off to sleep

[ernest]

Good morning boys and gals!!

[Haissam]

morning morning !

[Black Betty]

Morning all,

I’ve nearly finished my 196 pages of stats…..YIPEEEEEEEE

And I’ve got a sore head because my cousin arrived last night, didn’t go to bed until 3 this morning!!!

How are we all today then?

Is there any events up at the Autodrome over the next 2 weeks????
Want to take my cuz up for a look.

[the eldest boy]

Morning guys!

Dubai traffic sucks, eh? Even driving my M3 i absolutely hate my journey to work! Yesterday i got caught in a tailback caused by an crashed lorry and it took me over two hours to get to work; today the traffic was awful again and it took me 1 hour 15 minutes. It's only 24kms!

:mad:

[Black Betty]

Feelin your pain Phil, I used to stay in Sharjah and during Ramadan it was taking me 3 hours each way!!!
We got up at 5.30 and started work at 7.30....totaly mental!!!!!!

It must be fun in the M3!!!!!

[Wazif]

we just need to accept traffic as a part of life :P..... however, wasting your life is traffic is sad! ...so much more that you can do with that time.... we seriously need a good solution to this mayhem!
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Opium rehab advice

[the eldest boy]

Mate, when you're averaging about 4kms/hr it doesn't matter whether you're driving an BMW M3, Ferrari Enzo or a Nissan Tilda! You can still only go as fast as the car in front!

When you finally get through the traffic however, well that's a different story! Vroom vroom! :excited:

[Black Betty]

we just need to accept traffic as a part of life :P..... however, wasting your life is traffic is sad! ...so much more that you can do with that time.... we seriously need a good solution to this mayhem!

I vote for either Helicopters or Sherman Tanks....."budda budda budda" (helicopter noise) or "crusha crusha crusha" (tank noise):rofl:

[the eldest boy]

It's the fault of town planners, who designed the roads and traffic management systems without fully considering future traffic needs. There's too many traffic lights, too many junctions and not enough fly-overs and tunnels. Take the traffic at the Greens as an example. I use that stupid junction everyday, approaching from the SZR to go straight through and toward Al Khail/Emirates Road. 99% of the cars around me want to do exactly the same thing. I sit in traffic there for at least 25 minutes every day because the lights have to cope with traffic comning from 4 directions. All they needed to do was to put a tunnel under that junction and effectively the road coming out of the Greens toward Barsha would become a flyover. No lights, no delays, just free-flowing traffic.

Basically, if you're on the SZR, or you live on the sea-side of SZR and you want to get to Emirates Road, you're forced to sit in traffic as there is no way of crossing the Al Khail without encountering traffic lights.

Also, confusion reigns as to why Dubai insists on adopting a "belt and braces" approach to traffic management. By that, i mean having two traffic-management systems in place at the same junction, the best example being a roundabout with traffic lights. There's no need for this at all. You either use a roundabout, or you use traffic lights, not both!

The SZR is, in the most part, a great example of a modern, multilane highway which (outside of peak hours) keeps traffic moving. So they got that one right. Everything else is so badly wrong, but unfortunately it will only get worse as Dubai continues to expand, placing even more pressure on roads that weren't even designed to cope with half the numbers of cars on the road today.

There, lecture finished.

[Bruno]

morning guys... phil it's been like that for the past years. +1 on the roads unable to cope with the growing number of cars on the road and wrong structure of the roads.

you will either get used to it or get a bike :)