What do you think, will The Line ever be built or is all of this just a publicity stunt? 🤔 Thank you for your support, we hope you enjoy the 3D renderings in this special episode! 💛
@@Ying-yang6969 and the Irony is still a major chunk of SAUDI YOUTH believe in this FANTASY S#iT and believe this LINEAR city will be built as Proposed in 2021 by 2030
So how is it any different that what most Muslim countries already are? Like not trying to be rude or anything but most Muslim countries are very authoritarian and often very difficult for the people living in them to leave whether by direct policies like their governments making it very difficult to get an official passport and permission to leave the country or indirectly simply because 99% of the population simply would not be able to afford the costs associated with international travel even if they sold everything they owned. The only difference with the line is that grants the Saudi government to monitor the population more with fewer resources but I don't think it effectively changes the situation for average people who already can't afford to leave the country even if they wanted to right now.
@@ThatGuyKazz That is exactly my point. The Line is based on the "10 minute city" idea where the residence are supposed to have everything they want/need within a 10 minute walking time of where they live. The Line is basically a giant box that an authoritarian government can easily stop people from entering or exiting. It might look nice but it's still a prison. I wouldn't live there if you gave me a place for free.
The Chinese are quite happy to carry out construction and civil engineering work for the Saudis, for a tidy sum. But to sink their own money into this folly? Nah ah.
@@RussiAashiq There's crazy and then there's CRAAAZY. Palm Island when first proposed was nowhere near as far-fetched bordering pure delusion of a magalomaniac as The Line.
Thinking about how the insane amount of resources for this project could be allocated toward public services / improving the country in general.... I can imagine if I was a Saudi citizen this project would piss me off.
Uhh... The Saudi citenzenry is absolutely forbidden to be "outraged" on penalty of death. The last guy who openly criticized the NoEM project was murdered and then dismembered in a Saudi Consulate. Was major news. But yes, the crown prince could have spent all those billions on creating high tech manufacturing, advanced research facilities, and education programs designed to get the Saudi public "up to speed" and in turn, create sustainable wealth, welfare, and infrastructure. Most Saudis are not well educated due to not having to do much of anything since the discovery of Oil by the British. Short sightedness is an understatement here..
I still don't who their target demographic is. I get ex pats moving to Dubai. But who the hell wants to trade their mansion and a land for a penthouse in the middle of nowhere
"Sir, we have hundreds of miles of uninhabited beautiful coastline with so much potential!" "Ok, let's build an enclosed box in the middle of the desert."
@@zam023When the world becomes drier the Artic melts. Idk about you but I’d rather move to Siberia in the back end of nowhere rather than this police-city in the worlds’ second greatest gutter of human rights
It's hard to say for sure until we see how much economy they manage to make aside of fossil fuels before the music stops. But one of the big cliff edges they're standing on is that their country has no permanent rivers or fresh water sources. Yet they massively grew the population in to the tens of millions. Which then can only be sustained by enormous desalination plants that convert salt water to sweet water at gargantuan energy costs. So enormous expenses for an absolute essential good for the population. So yeah, if they fail to diversify things could get really really ugly.
I live near NEOM in Saudi Arabia. The project will not be abandoned, it will be completed, and if it is completed, you will not be able to get here because you do not have money like us😉🇸🇦
@@RoryinSaudiArabia lol you surely are a product of the Saudi Education system , hey the world will just laugh as Saudi had nothing of value and you can tend your goats in the dessert , it's all you will have. If you are fine with the people's money being stolen by your corrupt goverment, then who are we to complain For a 'country' that has acheived nothing and never will , not sure where that pride comes from
As a Saudi Arabian I appreciate your kindness and open-mindedness without showing any hate to us 😁 Although personally I am pretty sad about what my country is doing I hope for the best in everything❤️
@@greysnake2903the USA is the biggest devil, atleast the government, I tried to study there and they were so unfair that they’ve oppressed me by making false accusations against me etc
This is what happens when countries are reckless with money. They have the fast money from oil and don’t know how to act! They’ll learn the hard way when the oil dries up!
They could boost the tourism without these stupid mega projects. Qatar and especially the U.A.E has shown that. Even Bahrain is getting in on it. But to be fair, I personally do not like Saudi Arabia, and would go to the U.A.E 100 times before I went to SA...
Faaaaaar too practical. Really, what are you thinking?! People would be in closer proximity to any other resident and community services. How easily could you lock down a cell block, I mean neighborhood, to stop the spread of rioting, I mean pathogen?
Hell, they could even be artistic with it and use circles within circles, not all parallel. Like 3 tangential circles within one big circle, anything but one giant line. There's a reason we've never built cities the way the Line is proposed.
@@luisostasuc8135 Yeah I also feel like Neom is too spread out already so a gigant line would spread it even more, they should focus on some livable, dense city that you can actually walk in (most khaleeji cities are not walkable and you need a car) and has shade. Also I like the circles in circles.
It was just an excuse to overpay certain contractors for pushing around a bunch of dirt. The whole plan was to shuttle money to specific developers, it's all a money laundering scam.
"...it's all a money laundering scam.": It could be (partly) a fraud, yes. But to justify the term 'money laundering', you would have the case that there is illegally obtained money which is converted to usable things like expensive cars, huge houses, etc. That's not the case here.
@@mpmpm Well... okay, but I'm not sure what to call it then. The royals have a big budget to do infrastructure stuff like the Line, but they want to spend the money on Bentleys and fancy diamonds and stuff. They hire contractors to push around dirt, and get a cut of the money back to spend as they want. Why else do they do this stuff if not to enrich themselves somehow.
The Saudis thought people were thinking "That's too ambitious to be built" but what people are actually thinking is "Why would you build this?" I doubt it will be the tourist attraction they want it to be.
@@ccp0406 Allow me to say that you cannot come to Saudi Arabia because you do not have the money. Sorry, sorry. I can sponsor your trip to Saudi Arabia😉🇸🇦
@@RoryinSaudiArabia average income is 3k/month in saudi, literally impoverished, not to mention the 10000s of slaves that essentially built big malls to copy USA for "leaders" that sit up in their apartments doing drugs and paying instagram models for sex
What I want to know is who is jumping to live in the dessert 😂. 300k people? Sewage? Water? Electricity? Then food and goods? This is so illogical it's insane.
OMG! Thats shocking!!!😮 Who on the Earth ever would have imagined that this incredible, gigantic, futuristic, unbelievble, megascaled project would end up in a failure? Nobody, right?
I had to sit down to watch ths. Shocking, I tell you. I was SURE this was going to happen. Next someone is going to tell me unicorns aren’t going to come to my birthday party.
If Saudi Arabia is serious about building this, I do not understand why they haven’t figured out that they could assemble the Line the way cruise ships are built after the construction of a supporting superstructure that would be much less expensive. Everything else would be prefabricated modular and installed in sections.
yeah seems like the most feasible way to do this would be to start with a large port area where materials could be brought in and fabricated into modular sections then load up on a tram system that moves those modules down the line to the leading edge to be installed into the final assembly.
I mean it's not. I mean come on how stupid is this? It's crazy tall and why? They are trying to squeeze as much into as little land as possible in the middle of... The desert. Oh yeah, space is famously at a real premium in the middle of a desert. They are building through a mountain and why? Just to keep a straight line. Like that's it that's the entire justification. It'd be like building a circle city near the coast and when you reach the beach you go "well it obviously needs to keep being a circle but the Pacific Ocean is in the way so I Guess we'll have to grab some dirt and fill it in!"
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Actually it's not so much about money as it is about cooperation and switching the mindset. Check videos of Andrew Millison with his permaculture projects. He even did some in India.
01:14 Cutting edge "A.I." to track "criminal activity" and deploy security forces to handle "incidents" in real time? That just screams "Big Brother" is watching everything you do and they will not hesitate to act forcefully if they perceive you as a "threat". Sounds like a great place to live... If you want to live in an authoritarian dystopia.
Yes that is the whole point. World "leaders" need new ways to cram people into less space, because we are basically unruly production units. They want to track everything from all of your movements, health, resource consumption, productivity, social compliance and fine tweak any of the variables. But you have to still have the illusion that you are free as a bird and also very lucky to live like a serf.
is anyone else skeptical of completion yet shocked at the amount of prep work that has already been completed? I mean they did excavate 100km of earth and built two fully-fledged worker towns. Some level of commitment or insanity is going on here
they need to do something to con braindead investors to give them more money, so they spend a billion, digging a bit ditch , and go look see it's real. I mean it's not like they care how many of their workers die in the heat
That's legit just money laundering. Pretty positive the companies assume the earthworks will never be used and they are just going through the general motions of rough flattening the ground for quadruple what it should cost. The reason the elites aren't rebelling against throwing away all the oil wealth is because it's being thrown directly at them. Which keeps MBS in power.
Moving the Egyptian government to outside Cairo is pretty bad use of resources. Indonesia is moving the capital of Jakarta to ruin another island because it is now a stinking hellhole.
What if is actually finished ?, and attracted 100 million tourists ?. Will be the dumbest project in history ?, you need to remember they are building the project right now, it’s not failed.
I don't know, the plan to dam the Strait of Gibraltar was also a 10/10 on the dumb scale. Of course common sense hit long before anyone even considered doing it.
It wasn't a surprise that neom downsized the line as it is impossible to build a line for 170 kilometers and to be honest I think the line is a dumb idea and way to impossible if neom continues more they could be in bankruptcy because there spending so much cash on a single project
" it is impossible to build a line for 170 kilometers": they can't pay for it, but technically, it is not impossible at all. But it is impossible to do it within a reasonable amount of years.
I've had the unfortunate experience of being in a desert sandstorm. Think of sandblasting your nice glass building. The area they're building in you can get storms last over a week. Dubai is bad enough but this is worse.
Wonder who wants to be first in line now? If they build a few of those sections they can change the project name into The dotted Line. A rich dot a servant dot a tourist dot and in between the builded area it’s the home of the builders for the next 7 decades being unable to finish the line. Till the last builder dies, and their settlements become a tourist attraction. Young Saudi’s will dream of living in line or a kilometer in the sky. Awesome.
In the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, there is a part when her dad was working on the construction of the railroad. Part of the build was identifying town locations and laying out commercial & homestead lots for settlement and development by interested individuals. This because stream powered trains need refueling stations for coal and water and one can't just have a station in the middle of nowhere (even if it is). Meaning that a planned town/city needs some sort of reason for being in a particular location. Farming, Mining, Leisure can be reasons for the existence of a town. In Laura's case, being part of a shipping route is another. Apart from the logistics of building the Line, a problem that I see is that I don't see the reason for building it "there" apart from it being empty space. I do not know if you have done a review of King Abdullah Economic City but maybe it would be useful to know what were the reasons it wasn't finished. What lessons did they learn - or did they simply put it behind them to try something new and make the same mistakes all over but on a more expensive scale?
What lessons did they learn? Hmm, you used two L words there that I don’t think they have… Rest of your post is good. I hope someone else with more time comments and gets a discussion going.
These types of city developments, like The Line , are part of the World Economic Forum's plans to ban cash and have everyone live in places where everything is tracked and controlled.
It’s a lesson in one of the many dangers of unquestioned autocracy. Your railway example of how America and Western Europe’s used private corporations with profit incentives to create railways efficiently and effectively, the Russian Tsar drew lines between several major Russian cities without any regard for minor settlements or Geography. The result was railways which were insanely expensive and not designed with any intent beyond a single man’s half thought out idea. These rail ways would fall out of use and be replaced with more sensible lines within a few years. Remind you of anything?
I like how he states that the project was being constructed in phases. Then surmises that the whole project was shrunk from its original size, when in reality what changed was their intended construction for their initial phase of the line by 2030.
Thank you for this very nice report. If they made this 106 mile line a circle, it would have a diameter of about 33.7 miles. That would make a lot more sense, in terms of getting from point A to point B, even if you DO have a high-speed train.
What surprises me is that it’s not that hard to estimate the total cost of this project and see that the money for it wasn’t there so why would the king authorize it. Doesn’t he have financial advisors?
Au final , c'était prévisible . Cela fait longtemps depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'il y a eu des projets de villes et villages linéaire et qui n'ont pas fonctionnés . En bref, si ils construisent leurs 2km , cela ne sera pas si différent que les barres d'immeubles construit en Europe sous les 30 glorieuses (1945-1975).
Looking at Google Earth, the most likely location for the MiniLine seems to be the Gyal area as you guys pointed out. Besides the relatively nearby NEOM worker town, the amount of traffic around the pit is insane, with hundreds and hundreds of trucks driving around, looking like ants.
@@WindTurbineSyndromeIf they are nomads they are nomadic. No need to move them. They move themselves. I never actually saw any nomads in Saudi Arabia. If there are, there are very few.
@@elchaposexcitingadventures1674 Most nomads from anywhere in the world move within certain areas and regions, usually seasonally as they know where to go to find what they need (water, pastures, economic opportunity, etc). Not even gypsies move randomly. And you personally having never seen one is hardly indicative of... anything at all actually, I'm not sure how that's relevant?
They really should complete the projects one at a time. They should do their best and complete it, what a high bar they would set 💪 It would be incredible , ineffable really 😁I'm sure Dubai's projects like palm island were also thought impossible. All the best to Saudi 🎉
There is a misinformation here and to be honest I don't know if that is on purpose or not ! in 2018 Jeddah tower was named " Kingdom tower" which was owned by Kingdom Holding company that is owned by Alwaleed bin Talal not the PIF
Jeddah Tower is different. It’s not owned by the PIF. So, we can’t judge NEOM by a private project that has nothing to do with the owners of NEOM. To us (Saudis), the PIF has a great record of delivering their hundreds of projects on time or slightly delayed but always exceeding expectations and over delivering.
I imagine a caste system rising, with poor people working in the bottom sections in semi-slavery conditions with limited access to sunlight, while the rich live in the heavens. I'm sure this is by design.
International funding - how can one dream of building something foolish and then expecting the world to fund it ? Aren't there better things to address on this planet ?
I feel these videos are clickbait. I feel your questions are also clickbait. A city is not created instantly. First you start with a few people then it becomes a village then it becomes a hamlet, town then it becomes a city. Community has to be created. Community takes time. There needs to be jobs. You don't just build a city and expect a city to be there. The point I'm making is these videos are as if everyone was expecting it instantly it never would be instantly it's a long-term vision. Rome had a vision. Rome wasn't built in a day. And that's how I'm going to end my point.
It finally makes sense to me what The Line and Neom really are. They're Epcot; a theme park pretending to be a futuristic city. It's kinda funny and kinda sad... humanity would rather roleplay that we're in some futuristic utopia rather than getting down to really trying to be one.
Not really. Epcot exists inside of an already thriving city. Neom is a series of fantasy projects in the middle of nowhere with very little existing infrastructure to support them. Stupidity to the max.
Its sad you even equate this dystopia city to some sorta resort man this is something we could slip into george orwells 1984 and people would think it was there because orwell wrote it
No harm feelings at all but I work in this project and it is not changed at all. The line will be 170 km but the time we need to finish it is going to be over 30 years. In addition we are adding new things to the line which making it more costly. Also the money being spent here is unbelievable. Nobody can even imagine.
Amazes me how they think the amount of disruption to the environment is gonna make things better, like the way they sell. But in reality it's all about control
3 points I’d like to bring up after watching this. 1. Those aerial photos of workers digging a giant straight line in the desert are actually part of the international team that works for Google Earth repainting the dotted line around the equator 2. The bodies of the investigative reporters from Bloomberg that broke the NEOM financial story were later found dismembered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Apparently due to faulty wiring in the complimentary hair drier. 3. If I want to have an insanely expensive holiday where I get to stare at sand and wild camels all day I’ll do it right here in Australia where we have plenty of both but you can also drink BEER
@@chrisfallis5851 yeah I used to do that every day off when I lived in Cairns Worse case scenario is you meet a tiger shark. It’s the venomous stuff you need to worry about more…
To the potential business investors: " what return do you realistically expect to get from this which is managed by people who have no clue about efficient financial or operational management?" " How would this very risky investment be a better place to put your money, when you could invest in another proven hub with proven building designs in proven markets with legal backing, in places people actuallly want to live?. Im listening" To the potential residents there: " Why would you want to live in a big box, with no direct sunlight or fresh air, in the middle of a sand desert nowhere near the coast. " To the people considering buying a slot at that marina: " why would you put your boat in a space that will be permanently hidden from sunshine (the alignment showed the marina in the shadow of the building). "
Construction will resume... as soon as they can secure enough mirror glass tables and disco balls. The disco balls are the most difficult, there's only one manufacturer left these days.
What saudi Arabia should since running out of funds, is to dig the the foundation for as far as they can and connect it to the red sea, then flood it with seawater for fishery, desalinate water for drinking and supply electricity from solar.
Yeah well, a 2 KM line isn't too shabby after all. Would still be the largest building in the world. Saudi should be commended for forward thinking and boldness. MBS is a true leader, who has revolutionized the Saudi society and brought into the 21st century.
One thing no one seems to address is, the Line is going to act like a huge sail and will need to move in the wind, so how will that effect living in it?
Qiddiya is near my house. The business there is endless, and there is the largest entertainment city in the middle of the mountains. I think people who are obsessed with entertainment cities will love it😆😆🩷
The Jeddah Tower project is not by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, but by the private sector, and linking these two projects together as being by the Saudi Public Investment Fund is misleading, to say the least.
What’s difficult, is they have to keep an open mind on technology... because at the rate it's being built, humans are creating newer and more advanced technology... maybe at some point we will come up with something way better and way more efficient than “The Line."
@@mikatu It's not dumb, it's stoopid in the circumstances at the moment. They need to plan logically... instead of going straight for the main thing. idk who would wanna live there anyways? if Elon Musk was in charge he would help it stand a chance... unless he finds it stoopid
Good point. I won't bat an eye about getting a 12x25' pad poured for a shed when idiots are consuming this vast amount of resources on this idiotic mega projects. The sheer amount of Co2 that would go into "the line". But hey, thank god it'd be "100% renewable" :)
can it be built is the question. so people who are fans of incredibles-like me--are upset. already jeddah is not completed and that was another upset as whole world was cheering for it.
@@king_has_no_clothskul8635 هذا دليل أنك لا تعلم عن أي شيء بالسعودية، برج جدة يملكه رجل أعمال سعودية وشركة خاصة، وليس له علاقة بالحكومة ولا بملاك نيوم. برج جده استثمار شركة خاصة ليس له علاقة بالحكومة
Even if they had $1tn, it would mean spending only $58 per cubic metre on the original Line. Then you need to add groundworks, design and infrastructure. TBH the line is as fictional as religion. They'll need a god to build it. Lets see how that goes for them.
The Project was ambitious in the first place. Despite the funding allocation, the lack of Community Engagements has led to this. If you planning this as long-term project, Community Engagement is key here. I know çause I'm a South African Engineer, and providing a concrete plan where people will be fully invested in this project is beneficial to any project
I am a Saudi. It saddens me that some people say that it is a failed project, but we, Saudis, will make history and respond to the skeptics who do not have the money and say that the project is stupid!! Hahahahaha, thank you, my country, Saudi Arabia, for the present and the future
What do you think, will The Line ever be built or is all of this just a publicity stunt? 🤔
Thank you for your support, we hope you enjoy the 3D renderings in this special episode!
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Probably, but it'd be very disappointing
It's basically impossible to build
I loved the 3D renderings!!!
Incredible production quality on your episodes!!
And the YT Gold Play button - looks great. Congratulations again.
@@kacperdolega8771 Exactly this lol
Who didn’t see this coming? Seemed a bit obvious at the start.
exactly
Anyone who dare speak the truth gets executed and dismembered
Well, saudi arabian people believed it.
Most likely it was never meant to be, just make-believe project to get some more fund.
@@Ying-yang6969 and the Irony is still a major chunk of SAUDI YOUTH believe in this FANTASY S#iT and believe this LINEAR city will be built as Proposed in 2021 by 2030
"Downsizing" kind of undersells this.
It's like saying "We downsized the Jeddah tower. It will now be five stories tall, topping out at 16 meters."
Now that's something I could get behind for that area.
while a five-story building is simple and a mini line is still beyond any current construction capability🤣
It would still be impressive, though
المدينة ستنتهي بالشكل المطلوب ولن ينقص من طولها شيء، هي تعمل على ثلاثة مراحل.
It doesn’t look good to investors if Saudi Arabia can’t finish other mega projects it started.
The Line sounds like a high-end prison.
With lots of soap bars to be picked.
Dystopia takes many forms.
This seems like HELL.
So how is it any different that what most Muslim countries already are? Like not trying to be rude or anything but most Muslim countries are very authoritarian and often very difficult for the people living in them to leave whether by direct policies like their governments making it very difficult to get an official passport and permission to leave the country or indirectly simply because 99% of the population simply would not be able to afford the costs associated with international travel even if they sold everything they owned. The only difference with the line is that grants the Saudi government to monitor the population more with fewer resources but I don't think it effectively changes the situation for average people who already can't afford to leave the country even if they wanted to right now.
@@ThatGuyKazz That is exactly my point. The Line is based on the "10 minute city" idea where the residence are supposed to have everything they want/need within a 10 minute walking time of where they live. The Line is basically a giant box that an authoritarian government can easily stop people from entering or exiting. It might look nice but it's still a prison. I wouldn't live there if you gave me a place for free.
I mean it pretty much is
Even the Chinese think this is a crazy plan.
The Chinese are quite happy to carry out construction and civil engineering work for the Saudis, for a tidy sum. But to sink their own money into this folly? Nah ah.
Palm Island were crazy once
@@RussiAashiq There's crazy and then there's CRAAAZY. Palm Island when first proposed was nowhere near as far-fetched bordering pure delusion of a magalomaniac as The Line.
@@RussiAashiqNo they weren't
Thinking about how the insane amount of resources for this project could be allocated toward public services / improving the country in general.... I can imagine if I was a Saudi citizen this project would piss me off.
a lot of them are rich and don't care
they kinda need to make these for tourism or their country will go bankrupt in like 50 years and their citizens will be much worse off
Uhh...
The Saudi citenzenry is absolutely forbidden to be "outraged" on penalty of death. The last guy who openly criticized the NoEM project was murdered and then dismembered in a Saudi Consulate. Was major news.
But yes, the crown prince could have spent all those billions on creating high tech manufacturing, advanced research facilities, and education programs designed to get the Saudi public "up to speed" and in turn, create sustainable wealth, welfare, and infrastructure.
Most Saudis are not well educated due to not having to do much of anything since the discovery of Oil by the British. Short sightedness is an understatement here..
They are saudis. Who cares?!
We are not! We know it will be completed
People who would live in "the line" are the kind that set reminders on their phones to inhale and exhale
I still don't who their target demographic is. I get ex pats moving to Dubai. But who the hell wants to trade their mansion and a land for a penthouse in the middle of nowhere
The reminder feature on my phone is what I use the most. More than any app, more than any game..
Don't judge me..
Its arabias 1984 666 planm a fully encompasing survaillance state. You can only go one way or the other
Time to rename the Line to the Money Pit.
@@srfnsurfer "A penthouse in the middle of nowhere" makes it sound good lmao
should be called the dash now
S.O.S
The hyphen perhaps?
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The en dash or em dash? Pick your choice
Very Funny! ❤😂🎉
"Sir, we have hundreds of miles of uninhabited beautiful coastline with so much potential!"
"Ok, let's build an enclosed box in the middle of the desert."
From line to dot is now a full stop...
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لازالت المدينة قيد العمل ولم يتغير حجمها، لازالت بالمرحله الاولى وهناك ثلاثة مراحل.
just watching a propaganda video, doesn't mean they stopped it!
@@ehsankhorasani_ right....
Bro I get ur point and appreciate the intended humour but a dot is a full stop lad
Nobody asked whether the Line would happen, everybody said that it was a stupid idea.
Its a crap plan a real 1 brain cell way of designing a city 😂
I knew it wouldn’t happen but I was hoping it was going to work
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Saud family are 1 cell brains 😂
Oftentimes, when common sense and simple logic are overshadowed by sheer stupidity, this outcome usually happens.
yup
Sheer stupity on steroids becuz billions of dollars to burn...
It is not stupid. It is just ahead of its times. When 50% of the Earth is turned into a desert. Everyone would want to move here.
@@zam023 It is supremely stupid.
@@zam023When the world becomes drier the Artic melts. Idk about you but I’d rather move to Siberia in the back end of nowhere rather than this police-city in the worlds’ second greatest gutter of human rights
Even claiming they’ve “laid the foundations” is a considerable stretch: they’ve simply dug a long trench in the desert sand.
Which is ill-advised the soil will backfill with time, they could have dug bit by bit
...and with the 9ne in 1000ys rainfall it will become a river 😂
On a scale of 1 to 10, how fucked is Saudi Arabia when the Oil Cash stops flowing?
These projects are the machination of a child with legos.
It's hard to say for sure until we see how much economy they manage to make aside of fossil fuels before the music stops.
But one of the big cliff edges they're standing on is that their country has no permanent rivers or fresh water sources. Yet they massively grew the population in to the tens of millions. Which then can only be sustained by enormous desalination plants that convert salt water to sweet water at gargantuan energy costs. So enormous expenses for an absolute essential good for the population.
So yeah, if they fail to diversify things could get really really ugly.
@@Quickshot0 True, but using Money so dumb...
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@@Quickshot0 Saudi may return to it's past days again
No. Lego kids still understand limitations.
Oops.
With all that money, can they just make a terraforming mega project that turns the desert around them into a forest or something?
Definitely. Israel, who has only a fraction of what the Saudis have, have partially terraformed some desert for farming.
@@ErikVRedbut Israel’s terrain isn’t similar and they take their time with it.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Lord Acton
Let me just say I cant wait to explore this place once its abandoned..
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If it even gets far enough to get abandoned
I live near NEOM in Saudi Arabia. The project will not be abandoned, it will be completed, and if it is completed, you will not be able to get here because you do not have money like us😉🇸🇦
@@RoryinSaudiArabia Blink twice if you're being held prisoner.
@@RoryinSaudiArabia lol you surely are a product of the Saudi Education system , hey the world will just laugh as Saudi had nothing of value and you can tend your goats in the dessert , it's all you will have.
If you are fine with the people's money being stolen by your corrupt goverment, then who are we to complain
For a 'country' that has acheived nothing and never will , not sure where that pride comes from
As a Saudi Arabian I appreciate your kindness and open-mindedness without showing any hate to us 😁 Although personally I am pretty sad about what my country is doing I hope for the best in everything❤️
Just don't hang around any consulates in Turkey.
It isn’t hate to call out something ridiculous for what it is. Hate would be telling you it was a good idea.
You smile while your compatriots are committing acts of debauchery.
@@greysnake2903the USA is the biggest devil, atleast the government, I tried to study there and they were so unfair that they’ve oppressed me by making false accusations against me etc
وليش حزنان؟ مشاريع كبيره وضخمه راح تنتهي وتدير على الدولة اموال وسياح من حول العالم، واحنا بعد راح نزور هالمدن ان شاء الله ونشوف المستقبل.
Why not just build 1km and see if it attracts enough interest?
They can hire Bob The Builder as the main contractor.
Because that makes too much sense and were talking about saudi arabian government officials
This one kilometer will show the world the madness of the idea. Financially, technically and socially.
Cuz that’s a practical and logical thing to do. They don’t have that ability, and hence haven’t finished any of these idiotic mega projects they plan.
1km is still 10 billion 💀
As inhabitants of the same planet, we should be outraged at the waste of resources this project is
Exactly
let me guess , you live in the west.
and the only reason you are outraged, is that a middle eastern , not western , country is doing this.
This is what happens when countries are reckless with money. They have the fast money from oil and don’t know how to act! They’ll learn the hard way when the oil dries up!
I definitely agree.
when will the oil dry up ?
Except that without the line no one would be talking about that god forsaken country!
They could boost the tourism without these stupid mega projects. Qatar and especially the U.A.E has shown that. Even Bahrain is getting in on it. But to be fair, I personally do not like Saudi Arabia, and would go to the U.A.E 100 times before I went to SA...
facts!!!
I think the should make "The Circle" instead. It would be so much more efficient and you can also expand it with more circles around it.
Faaaaaar too practical. Really, what are you thinking?! People would be in closer proximity to any other resident and community services. How easily could you lock down a cell block, I mean neighborhood, to stop the spread of rioting, I mean pathogen?
Hell, they could even be artistic with it and use circles within circles, not all parallel. Like 3 tangential circles within one big circle, anything but one giant line. There's a reason we've never built cities the way the Line is proposed.
@@luisostasuc8135 Yeah I also feel like Neom is too spread out already so a gigant line would spread it even more, they should focus on some livable, dense city that you can actually walk in (most khaleeji cities are not walkable and you need a car) and has shade.
Also I like the circles in circles.
So you mean san antonio
We could do the Olympic rings, that'd be fun. Or the planets. Or one of those ball-and-stick models of molecules.
Endless possibilities
It was just an excuse to overpay certain contractors for pushing around a bunch of dirt. The whole plan was to shuttle money to specific developers, it's all a money laundering scam.
很有可能，这么大的规模，光是推土就要废很大劲了
They run the government and jail anyone they want... They don't need to launder, they could just give them money. lol
"...it's all a money laundering scam.": It could be (partly) a fraud, yes. But to justify the term 'money laundering', you would have the case that there is illegally obtained money which is converted to usable things like expensive cars, huge houses, etc. That's not the case here.
@@mpmpm Well... okay, but I'm not sure what to call it then. The royals have a big budget to do infrastructure stuff like the Line, but they want to spend the money on Bentleys and fancy diamonds and stuff. They hire contractors to push around dirt, and get a cut of the money back to spend as they want. Why else do they do this stuff if not to enrich themselves somehow.
They are the government and have authoritarian power... They don't need to launder money lol.
The Saudis thought people were thinking "That's too ambitious to be built" but what people are actually thinking is "Why would you build this?"
I doubt it will be the tourist attraction they want it to be.
who wants to go to saudi arabia lol
@@ccp0406 Allow me to say that you cannot come to Saudi Arabia because you do not have the money. Sorry, sorry. I can sponsor your trip to Saudi Arabia😉🇸🇦
@@RoryinSaudiArabia average income is 3k/month in saudi, literally impoverished, not to mention the 10000s of slaves that essentially built big malls to copy USA for "leaders" that sit up in their apartments doing drugs and paying instagram models for sex
@@RoryinSaudiArabia هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه ادعسيه
@@ccp0406 The entire point of all the megastructures is to boost tourism so they can reduce their reliance on oil income
It seems that the Line will be renamed to offLine.
No
Its the end of the line for "The Line".
بليد@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف
What I want to know is who is jumping to live in the dessert 😂. 300k people? Sewage? Water? Electricity? Then food and goods? This is so illogical it's insane.
Are these people living in an icecream sundae?
I bet the cost of living is gonna be super expensive there
Not to mention that desert is in Saudi effin Arabia.
@@timothym.orourke5283
Well your comment just wooshed over people's heads. Honestly, are people too stupid to spell these days?
Saudi insane!
So its now called The Dot?😅
The Dash
No, it's called " the end of the line" 😂
The ditch
OMG! Thats shocking!!!😮
Who on the Earth ever would have imagined that this incredible, gigantic, futuristic, unbelievble, megascaled project would end up in a failure?
Nobody, right?
Cgi render guy got paid to make a promo video for stupid outside investors, that's all that matters.
I had to sit down to watch ths. Shocking, I tell you. I was SURE this was going to happen. Next someone is going to tell me unicorns aren’t going to come to my birthday party.
@@sarahrosen4985 im sorry... but... there will be no Unicorns at your Birthday Party 😢
@@Kinsi666😭😭😭😭😭 😊
20 years from now these NEOM videos will give us exactly the same feels as old Popular Science magazines.
I expect this project to leave an enigmatic ruin in the desert for thousands of years.
In 20 years I see myself going on a tour in the desert to look at the abandoned Line, should be a cool UrbeX expereince.
If Saudi Arabia is serious about building this, I do not understand why they haven’t figured out that they could assemble the Line the way cruise ships are built after the construction of a supporting superstructure that would be much less expensive. Everything else would be prefabricated modular and installed in sections.
yeah seems like the most feasible way to do this would be to start with a large port area where materials could be brought in and fabricated into modular sections then load up on a tram system that moves those modules down the line to the leading edge to be installed into the final assembly.
thats genius actually lol
yeah, them using excavator is just ineffective
they should have look up how Germany dig the coal mine and do something similar to that
I mean it's not. I mean come on how stupid is this? It's crazy tall and why? They are trying to squeeze as much into as little land as possible in the middle of... The desert. Oh yeah, space is famously at a real premium in the middle of a desert.
They are building through a mountain and why? Just to keep a straight line. Like that's it that's the entire justification.
It'd be like building a circle city near the coast and when you reach the beach you go "well it obviously needs to keep being a circle but the Pacific Ocean is in the way so I Guess we'll have to grab some dirt and fill it in!"
Yeah, sure, and the end result would cost a lot less. But it would still be stupid.
Holy shit they actually started to build it? I considered it a PR stunt from the start!
They can play construction worker for a few months. Move some earth with some heavy equipment. Means nothing.
They really haven’t done anything except move dirt.
This thing is so huge just starting to build is in itself a PR stunt.
It is disastrous because they are trying to build something that only makes in CGI.
@@datswassup07and uprooted 20,000 people to make way for it. Lethal force was authorised too
A half-baked project that's doomed to fail. Who does Saudi Arabia think they are, Dubai!
Who wouldn't want to live in a tightly packed hellhole, overlooked by an Islamic AI ?! 😧
Halal AI, Mashpotatoallah!
The AI has detected that you only prayed 4 times today instead of the obligatory 5, and during one of those prayers you were out of alignment with the direction towards Mecca by approximately 8.6 degrees. Please make your way to the public square so that the robot of justice can flog you for this transgression.
@@hmartinspliff😂😂😂
@@hmartinspliffI'm a muslim and this made me laugh 😂
you have just invented a nightmare than makes HAL 9000 look like a cute bunny rabbit, surely there is a film in this
I wish we could use this much money and resources here in India to link all our rivers to manage droughts and flooding due to climate change
Actually it's not so much about money as it is about cooperation and switching the mindset.
Check videos of Andrew Millison with his permaculture projects.
He even did some in India.
Ask your gods kershina or ram 🐏 to give you something, or ask that multiple hands god shive to do something about drought
@@Mister.Bone_Saw who is Kershina? You created this new God?
01:14 Cutting edge "A.I." to track "criminal activity" and deploy security forces to handle "incidents" in real time? That just screams "Big Brother" is watching everything you do and they will not hesitate to act forcefully if they perceive you as a "threat". Sounds like a great place to live... If you want to live in an authoritarian dystopia.
Yes that is the whole point. World "leaders" need new ways to cram people into less space, because we are basically unruly production units. They want to track everything from all of your movements, health, resource consumption, productivity, social compliance and fine tweak any of the variables. But you have to still have the illusion that you are free as a bird and also very lucky to live like a serf.
is anyone else skeptical of completion yet shocked at the amount of prep work that has already been completed? I mean they did excavate 100km of earth and built two fully-fledged worker towns. Some level of commitment or insanity is going on here
they need to do something to con braindead investors to give them more money, so they spend a billion, digging a bit ditch , and go look see it's real. I mean it's not like they care how many of their workers die in the heat
That's legit just money laundering.
Pretty positive the companies assume the earthworks will never be used and they are just going through the general motions of rough flattening the ground for quadruple what it should cost.
The reason the elites aren't rebelling against throwing away all the oil wealth is because it's being thrown directly at them.
Which keeps MBS in power.
dumbest project in history
Moving the Egyptian government to outside Cairo is pretty bad use of resources. Indonesia is moving the capital of Jakarta to ruin another island because it is now a stinking hellhole.
What if is actually finished ?, and attracted 100 million tourists ?. Will be the dumbest project in history ?, you need to remember they are building the project right now, it’s not failed.
I don't know, the plan to dam the Strait of Gibraltar was also a 10/10 on the dumb scale. Of course common sense hit long before anyone even considered doing it.
@@oFaisalo 100 million tourists. I suppose there are always dumb people willing to go to places where you can be executed for any reason.
@@oFaisalo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Bro go praise allah
If their AI was any good it would have told them not to build it.
Perhaps it was the AI's idea on the first place
You mean their IQ 😮
It wasn't a surprise that neom downsized the line as it is impossible to build a line for 170 kilometers and to be honest I think the line is a dumb idea and way to impossible if neom continues more they could be in bankruptcy because there spending so much cash on a single project
agreed
The owner of channel belives them like a kid
Few things could bankrupt the nation as rich as Saudi, and they somehow found one of those few things.
@@allhailderpfestor4839
Going to be even more funny when their oil reserves run out, if they haven't already.
" it is impossible to build a line for 170 kilometers": they can't pay for it, but technically, it is not impossible at all. But it is impossible to do it within a reasonable amount of years.
Something about the lack of guard rails in the concept videos make me think investors are not interested in a death trap.
An investor isn't a money donor. How does this city generate money?
Saudi Arabia “YOU BURN OIL, WE BURN MONEY”
I've had the unfortunate experience of being in a desert sandstorm. Think of sandblasting your nice glass building. The area they're building in you can get storms last over a week. Dubai is bad enough but this is worse.
Wonder who wants to be first in line now? If they build a few of those sections they can change the project name into The dotted Line. A rich dot a servant dot a tourist dot and in between the builded area it’s the home of the builders for the next 7 decades being unable to finish the line. Till the last builder dies, and their settlements become a tourist attraction. Young Saudi’s will dream of living in line or a kilometer in the sky. Awesome.
In the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, there is a part when her dad was working on the construction of the railroad. Part of the build was identifying town locations and laying out commercial & homestead lots for settlement and development by interested individuals. This because stream powered trains need refueling stations for coal and water and one can't just have a station in the middle of nowhere (even if it is). Meaning that a planned town/city needs some sort of reason for being in a particular location.
Farming, Mining, Leisure can be reasons for the existence of a town. In Laura's case, being part of a shipping route is another. Apart from the logistics of building the Line, a problem that I see is that I don't see the reason for building it "there" apart from it being empty space. I do not know if you have done a review of King Abdullah Economic City but maybe it would be useful to know what were the reasons it wasn't finished. What lessons did they learn - or did they simply put it behind them to try something new and make the same mistakes all over but on a more expensive scale?
What lessons did they learn? Hmm, you used two L words there that I don’t think they have…
Rest of your post is good. I hope someone else with more time comments and gets a discussion going.
lol . . so then it will be called the dotted line
These types of city developments, like The Line , are part of the World Economic Forum's plans to ban cash and have everyone live in places where everything is tracked and controlled.
It’s a lesson in one of the many dangers of unquestioned autocracy. Your railway example of how America and Western Europe’s used private corporations with profit incentives to create railways efficiently and effectively, the Russian Tsar drew lines between several major Russian cities without any regard for minor settlements or Geography.
The result was railways which were insanely expensive and not designed with any intent beyond a single man’s half thought out idea. These rail ways would fall out of use and be replaced with more sensible lines within a few years.
Remind you of anything?
They should scrap it all and just make a Dune movie theme park.
I like how he states that the project was being constructed in phases. Then surmises that the whole project was shrunk from its original size, when in reality what changed was their intended construction for their initial phase of the line by 2030.
Thank you for this very nice report. If they made this 106 mile line a circle, it would have a diameter of about 33.7 miles. That would make a lot more sense, in terms of getting from point A to point B, even if you DO have a high-speed train.
I’m genuinely surprised that they even considered this project viable. The fact they have gone as far as excavation, even just 2%, is insane hubris.
What surprises me is that it’s not that hard to estimate the total cost of this project and see that the money for it wasn’t there so why would the king authorize it. Doesn’t he have financial advisors?
They won't finish that 2%. Not even close. Whoever ever believed this was viable or remotely a good idea, is simply stupid.
Au final , c'était prévisible . Cela fait longtemps depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'il y a eu des projets de villes et villages linéaire et qui n'ont pas fonctionnés . En bref, si ils construisent leurs 2km , cela ne sera pas si différent que les barres d'immeubles construit en Europe sous les 30 glorieuses (1945-1975).
Looking at Google Earth, the most likely location for the MiniLine seems to be the Gyal area as you guys pointed out. Besides the relatively nearby NEOM worker town, the amount of traffic around the pit is insane, with hundreds and hundreds of trucks driving around, looking like ants.
Sentence to deth for protesting that the line was crossing through your homeland? Wow that's very wild! What a country
Saud's moved the Bedouin nomads who lived there already and if they refused to move the were imprisoned or killed.
@@WindTurbineSyndromeIf they are nomads they are nomadic. No need to move them. They move themselves. I never actually saw any nomads in Saudi Arabia. If there are, there are very few.
@@elchaposexcitingadventures1674 Most nomads from anywhere in the world move within certain areas and regions, usually seasonally as they know where to go to find what they need (water, pastures, economic opportunity, etc). Not even gypsies move randomly. And you personally having never seen one is hardly indicative of... anything at all actually, I'm not sure how that's relevant?
And they want to sell the Line as a futuristic paradise! How much of an idiot do you have to be to want to live in that?
They really should complete the projects one at a time. They should do their best and complete it, what a high bar they would set 💪 It would be incredible , ineffable really 😁I'm sure Dubai's projects like palm island were also thought impossible. All the best to Saudi 🎉
So good to know that the Saudis have so much water as well as money and common sense for Noem and The Wall.
Build something people can afford
Sounds like a true dystopian city, with ”security forces”…
There is a misinformation here and to be honest I don't know if that is on purpose or not ! in 2018 Jeddah tower was named " Kingdom tower" which was owned by Kingdom Holding company that is owned by Alwaleed bin Talal not the PIF
Saudi Arabia is like in a situation where they are about to hit the iceberg have you watch for all mankind yet?
Jeddah Tower is different. It’s not owned by the PIF. So, we can’t judge NEOM by a private project that has nothing to do with the owners of NEOM. To us (Saudis), the PIF has a great record of delivering their hundreds of projects on time or slightly delayed but always exceeding expectations and over delivering.
Exceeding who's expectations ? The Saudi people ? Or the Magazine headliners ?
I imagine a caste system rising, with poor people working in the bottom sections in semi-slavery conditions with limited access to sunlight, while the rich live in the heavens. I'm sure this is by design.
Beyond the steel sky......or Metropolis
You can't compare Jaddah tower yo the line bc jeddah tower not Saudi Arabia building it, the owner of it is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
International funding - how can one dream of building something foolish and then expecting the world to fund it ? Aren't there better things to address on this planet ?
Saudi Arabia has perfected the art of announcing and 3-D rendering ridiculous mega-projects.
I feel these videos are clickbait. I feel your questions are also clickbait. A city is not created instantly. First you start with a few people then it becomes a village then it becomes a hamlet, town then it becomes a city. Community has to be created. Community takes time. There needs to be jobs. You don't just build a city and expect a city to be there. The point I'm making is these videos are as if everyone was expecting it instantly it never would be instantly it's a long-term vision. Rome had a vision. Rome wasn't built in a day. And that's how I'm going to end my point.
The line is more like a luxury aquarium than a place to live.
Nice information video
I am at Saudi Arabia and my opinion is they never give up on luxurious projects, they just took time.
It finally makes sense to me what The Line and Neom really are. They're Epcot; a theme park pretending to be a futuristic city.
It's kinda funny and kinda sad... humanity would rather roleplay that we're in some futuristic utopia rather than getting down to really trying to be one.
Not really. Epcot exists inside of an already thriving city. Neom is a series of fantasy projects in the middle of nowhere with very little existing infrastructure to support them. Stupidity to the max.
Its sad you even equate this dystopia city to some sorta resort man this is something we could slip into george orwells 1984 and people would think it was there because orwell wrote it
@TheAnnoyingBoss Not a resort, but a facade.
No harm feelings at all but I work in this project and it is not changed at all. The line will be 170 km but the time we need to finish it is going to be over 30 years. In addition we are adding new things to the line which making it more costly. Also the money being spent here is unbelievable. Nobody can even imagine.
And the whole thing runs on magic and dreams, completely carbon free.
You are the carbon they want to reduce..
@@cloudstrife9340 Then I am sure to stay away from their ambassies.
Silly goose. The place will be run on the awesome power of rainbows and unicorn farts.
Amazes me how they think the amount of disruption to the environment is gonna make things better, like the way they sell. But in reality it's all about control
I think most of us are very well aware of that. You only need two functioning braincells to realize this.
3 points I’d like to bring up after watching this.
1. Those aerial photos of workers digging a giant straight line in the desert are actually part of the international team that works for Google Earth repainting the dotted line around the equator
2. The bodies of the investigative reporters from Bloomberg that broke the NEOM financial story were later found dismembered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Apparently due to faulty wiring in the complimentary hair drier.
3. If I want to have an insanely expensive holiday where I get to stare at sand and wild camels all day I’ll do it right here in Australia where we have plenty of both but you can also drink BEER
Yeah, but what about the jump bears and emus? Not to mention the Vegemite that seems to plague the country.
Swim up there by the Great Barrier Reef and you will find it very expensive. It could cost you an arm and a leg if the sharks are about.
@@chrisfallis5851 yeah I used to do that every day off when I lived in Cairns
Worse case scenario is you meet a tiger shark. It’s the venomous stuff you need to worry about more…
To the potential business investors: " what return do you realistically expect to get from this which is managed by people who have no clue about efficient financial or operational management?" " How would this very risky investment be a better place to put your money, when you could invest in another proven hub with proven building designs in proven markets with legal backing, in places people actuallly want to live?. Im listening"
To the potential residents there: " Why would you want to live in a big box, with no direct sunlight or fresh air, in the middle of a sand desert nowhere near the coast. "
To the people considering buying a slot at that marina: " why would you put your boat in a space that will be permanently hidden from sunshine (the alignment showed the marina in the shadow of the building). "
Construction will resume... as soon as they can secure enough mirror glass tables and disco balls. The disco balls are the most difficult, there's only one manufacturer left these days.
Thanks for the heads up. Hiding my disco ball now…
The way you deliver the information is really attractive, appreciate all your efforts 👍🏻
the line was always a dumb idea , living in it would mean you are always the max distance from any other part of the city you wanted to go to
Great, isn’t it! Prison without having to admit it. Jazz hands!
What saudi Arabia should since running out of funds, is to dig the the foundation for as far as they can and connect it to the red sea, then flood it with seawater for fishery, desalinate water for drinking and supply electricity from solar.
How long is it supposed to take window washers to clean the outside?
Yeah well, a 2 KM line isn't too shabby after all. Would still be the largest building in the world. Saudi should be commended for forward thinking and boldness. MBS is a true leader, who has revolutionized the Saudi society and brought into the 21st century.
Jeddah tower is not state funded, try to be accurate when comparing
.....ok! So ? Did that solve your essential problem ?
@@elefteriadisyanis1960 what essential problem are we talking about?
One thing no one seems to address is, the Line is going to act like a huge sail and will need to move in the wind, so how will that effect living in it?
Good video about the line
This video was great. The music was fire. Intense and captivating. Like an investigative report mystery show
First bro great video
I was first
Get back in the line 😅
That “mini line” made me cracked. 😂
Do a video of quiddiya and the theme park that is getting built there. It would be so interesting
Qiddiya is near my house. The business there is endless, and there is the largest entertainment city in the middle of the mountains. I think people who are obsessed with entertainment cities will love it😆😆🩷
The Jeddah Tower project is not by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, but by the private sector, and linking these two projects together as being by the Saudi Public Investment Fund is misleading, to say the least.
What’s difficult, is they have to keep an open mind on technology... because at the rate it's being built, humans are creating newer and more advanced technology... maybe at some point we will come up with something way better and way more efficient than “The Line."
Mate, you missed the whole point. The line is dumb af!!!
@@mikatu It's not dumb, it's stoopid in the circumstances at the moment. They need to plan logically... instead of going straight for the main thing. idk who would wanna live there anyways? if Elon Musk was in charge he would help it stand a chance... unless he finds it stoopid
I love how one of the main selling points is this is going to be a flashy 1984 on steroids…
All the concrete this will consume. Thank God for the paper McDonalds straws that will offset the Line….
Good point. I won't bat an eye about getting a 12x25' pad poured for a shed when idiots are consuming this vast amount of resources on this idiotic mega projects. The sheer amount of Co2 that would go into "the line". But hey, thank god it'd be "100% renewable" :)
When you think about how they treat the workers and the slavery they let happen , no savvy investor would want to be associated with that .
Why do you keep spreading rumours? There is no reduction in project size!! 🇸🇦
can it be built is the question. so people who are fans of incredibles-like me--are upset. already jeddah is not completed and that was another upset as whole world was cheering for it.
@@king_has_no_clothskul8635 هذا دليل أنك لا تعلم عن أي شيء بالسعودية، برج جدة يملكه رجل أعمال سعودية وشركة خاصة، وليس له علاقة بالحكومة ولا بملاك نيوم.
برج جده استثمار شركة خاصة ليس له علاقة بالحكومة
Even a downsize would be amazing , i would love to see a small part of it completed .
Even if they had $1tn, it would mean spending only $58 per cubic metre on the original Line. Then you need to add groundworks, design and infrastructure.
TBH the line is as fictional as religion. They'll need a god to build it. Lets see how that goes for them.
Its an huge W for all buster videos and people who said it wont happen
The Project was ambitious in the first place. Despite the funding allocation, the lack of Community Engagements has led to this. If you planning this as long-term project, Community Engagement is key here. I know çause I'm a South African Engineer, and providing a concrete plan where people will be fully invested in this project is beneficial to any project
I am a Saudi. It saddens me that some people say that it is a failed project, but we, Saudis, will make history and respond to the skeptics who do not have the money and say that the project is stupid!! Hahahahaha, thank you, my country, Saudi Arabia, for the present and the future
The mini line can still be said to just be the first part to be added to later as time goes on
I thought this was a pipeline dream and would remain a fantasy. I can't believe construction actually commenced.
I love Saudi's innovation and ideas. I see nothing but negative comments in here, but I'd like to know what any of them have accomplished.
Sad about all the people murdered that lived where the line is suppose to be