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BY PETERT GUEST


IKE OUR GLORIOUS leader, I went to Abu Dhabi, UAE, in Novem- ber to attend the inau- gural Middle East Park-


ing Symposium. Unlike JVH, I stayed on to speak at the Roadex/Railex con- ference and exhibition. The outcome was “interesting,” but I am not sure if that was in a good way.


First, the parking seminar. Heavily pro-


moted as the first event in the region specifi- cally dedicated to parking, it also had been supported by the government’s Department of Municipalities and Agriculture (DMA), which had been my client for the two and a half years while we developed the Parking


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Management Program. Unfortunately, the project seems to be stalled because the new Department of Transport (DOT) has decided that it should have control of the project. Now these are two departments of the


same government, but while they have been battling for control, progress has ground to a halt. The Executive Council (the legislative body) awarded the project to UK contractors NCP more than a year ago. Since then, they have been trying to get started and have already run up a seven- digit bill with no contract and no guarantee that someone won’t decide to start all over from scratch. Just before the seminar started, the


DOT announced that it had control of the project and the doo-doo hit the fan. The


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