Saudi Arabia's Decision to Scale Back THE LINE Project

⚠Important Clarification⚠ Saudi Arabia will start with a 2.4-kilometer 'Line' by 2030, Then they'll expand it to 170 kilometers over time.

When one has massive wealth & are not sure what to do with it.

Even at 2 Km I doubt it will get done

You start with "Saudi Arabia's plans for the Line hit a surprising twist". Have you seriously believed the hype before? I am sure no sane person ever thought that this project would ever be completed even in 100 years.

This will be dismissed entirely soon

Somebody took off their VR goggles and looked at the real world. Dont build and think people will come. Build because people want to come

From 170 km to only 2.4 km 🤣😂🤣

I can imagine a thousand and one other, better and more productive projects for the KSA than this preposterous, bombastic ego trip.

A project so ambitious to the limit of utilizing technologies that don’t exit yet!

The original point of it was that you live in a big city while being able to move around quickly without stress. Now if it's just a small neighborhood with three buildings, it's a completely different project.

If they made it a giant ring instead of a boring line and called it the oasis, with a forest in the middle, it would’ve been better.

Its just pure simple maths. Walls 500m tall x 200m wide x 1m depth = 100,000 cubic metres. Length 170km or 170,000m is 170,000 x 100,000= 17,000,000,000sqm or 17bn cubic metres. At a cost of $1tn dollars $1,000,000,000,000/17,000,000,000= $58 cubic metre. That's without carbon neutral power stations, a train that will take to from end to end in 20 minutes, an airport or external sanitation and water facilities. Population density for 9m people 6x greater than the most populously dense city in the world, Manilla causing crowding. $58 a cubic metre?? Good luck.

Not surprising at all. It was already a stupid thing to try and make it that long anyways

This is what happens when reality clashes with stupidity.

Instead of the line build waterways and canals so that the dry desert becomes green with trees

Even if they had the money - a "line" is a terrible design for a city and it would never work. They should be thankful for the short of cash or they would lose a lot more.

I am still counting on the flying cars, the hyperloop, the holographic teachers, the artificial moon, the glow in the dark sand, the dinosaur park and the robotic maids, which will function perfectly for at least a generation.

A dumb idea from a dumb arab man

I always thought convincing 9 million people to live in small units in the dessert was going to be a hard sell. 300,000 is MUCH more doable. Interested to see if this takes form. That's 1 heck of a reduction.

didnt saudi arabia fail to build a really tall building? how did they expect to build a 170 km long city?