• There were talks about mobile radars that will be installed by the Traffic Department in police cars to detect speeding and take pictures without stopping motorists.
• People discussed Ashghal’s plan to change the Sheraton roundabout to intersection in January 2014.
• There were discussions about the decision taken by Suq Waqif administration to allocate 50 percent of restaurants’ tables outside the outlets for non-smokers, and ban shisha inside restaurants and cafes.
• Some people complained about lack of enough lights in some public parks. They said families were worried about their children and demanded that authorities increase lights, particularly around the children’s play areas.
• Some people demanded that authorities enforce new rules on companies, which were implementing government projects and said many firms were giving projects to subcontractors who were wasting time and public fund by making endless mistakes and creating complications in work.
• There were talks about the increasing number of beneficiaries of the social security scheme, which has reached 13,000 so far this year as authorities have added more elders, widows, orphans, divorcees and people with special needs to the list.
• Some people said infrastructure projects were affecting people’s daily life and suggested that there should be an electronic board to show work progress in each project so that the media and the general public could know when the projects would be completed.
