THE LINE Megacity Is Shrinking: Shocking 98% Length Reduction Exposed!
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- THE LINE Megacity Is Shrinking: Shocking 98% Length Reduction Exposed!
The Line mega-city, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia's Neom project was billed as a linear city of the future, an ambitious centrepiece of the economic plan backed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to transition Saudi Arabia away from oil dependency. Now however, plans for the mirror-clad desert metropolis have been scaled down and the project, which was envisioned to stretch 105 miles is expected to reach just a mile and a half, a 98% reduction in its planned length. So, what is going on with the project? And why is Saudi Arabia downgrading their most awaited development? Let’s find out!
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0:00 Intro
0:48 Neom’s Ambitious Plans
2:27 Plans To Scale Back The Line
3:20 Reasons for Scaling Back
4:52 Feasibility
6:01 Controversies
8:29 Neom’s New Developments
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The only shocking part is that the project wasn't reduced 100%.
I think the LINE will be completed however long it is . But nobody gonna live in the LINE , who the hell want to live in the LINE without streets , police station , fire department , school , and hospital ?
Another ego's waisted a countries money, the architects and engineers that told them to spend this money should be in jail.
@@roycavitt4544 a new way to bankrupt a country in a polite way😂
Arabian grifters gotta grift.
@@chucnguyen101 everyone wants to live in the line because the start of the line is one of the worst places for a city and a line is the quickest way to get farthest away from that point.
The whole project is just a case where a country has more money than it has sense.
And neurones
As a Saudi I hope my government cancel the project because it may bankrupt the country
Here in the UK we've had plenty of money yet still had no sense. We can't build and maintain good infrastructure but we can afford to subsidise Ukraine's war without providing adequate military protection for ourselves. We can give billions in aid and see no benefit to the people this aid is meant to help and certainly no benefit to ourselves. Norway seems to have the right ideas as to how to spend its billions and its not splashing the cash around the globe in the vain hope of currying favour with despots and warlords.
Don't say that MBS will have you chopped up bro.
Yeah. If they continue doing this, they'll run out of money fast. Imagine this is taller than Empire State Building, how much would one block cost? Multiple that by the hundred or thousand.
Did Mr. Crown Prince really believe that it was a great idea to build a 100 km+ long mirror in the desert? A big ego is truly dangerous...
i said the same thing all that money is have them delusional asf
Small penis, no doubt
Yes he really did. Probably still does.
What is the big problem living in the Line with no streets ? How to go buy grocery , go to hospital ? Is there a police station , fire depart ent ? Blablahblah
@@chucnguyen101yes
The line at any scale is the most ignorant idea anyone has ever even considered!
The Space Elevator comes close. Barrack Obama proposing we build a literal Death Star is worse by far.
@@protorhinocerator142 A link to that footage please?
@@protorhinocerator142did Alex jones tell you that?
@@protorhinocerator142 Source please!
The original concept is horrendously impractical. For the same cost they can build several conventional cities, where people will actually want to live, not just visit as a weird tourist attraction.
A 5 minute "smart" city? No drinking or smoking, singing or dancing, no cars, no property, no neighbours, no churches, no escape. No thanks.
Low people carbon emission cities like this already exists. .... Prison
And to top it off it has been calculated that only 2% of all people live within 5min from each other.
@@rxb364 tribes have lived in deserts for thousands of years with zero emissions. The tractors needed to bulldoze the dirt will produce more carbon emissions than all the desert tribes in all of human history.
and who will be living on that, the fact that as expats you cannot get a citizenhip ststus
But plenty of peds
So now instead of the line, it becomes the dash? Updtae might even become the dot or the goner (cancelled) 😂
OMG 😂
🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Daesh?
I call it the segment.
😂😂
They'll most probably scrap the entire project, which only came about as a result of some man's big ego. Mr. Crown Prince should have built a walkable city with effective public transportation instead.
Imagine he would've invested the money into a solar park.. Energy costs could be practically 0 in his country without emissions.
imagine a fire inside it at 200 meters high
They actually got a plan
The proper way of doing this is to create a small version of the line as a test case. After 10 years and if the test version was successful, only then would you consider a full scale deployment. Also, their history of grand projects are spotty. What ever happen to the 1 mile high skyscraper that was under construction? I see nothing in their history of pulling off grand projects successfully.
The whole idea is bad. A smaller test version will show some tentative theoretical potential promise to some degree at some point, which will be taken as absolute certainty that we should proceed with the rest.
No, it's an objectively bad idea.
It can't work.
There's no proper way of doing this besides scrapping the whole thing altogether of course. I'm not an architect and even I could see that this was a terrible idea.
They did this to Palm Islands in Dubai. One worked and then they went for another one. It failed..
How else are they able to move the money from the govt/state/family pot into his friends and partners in the commercial world.
The crown prince should stop using hard drugs.
I said from the very beginning that a line is not a city. Even the 2% will fail
Exactly, same thoughts I have
There’s so much money out they can’t figure out how to squander it any faster.
Might as well collectively call these projects "Wonka-Islamo-Disney"
Meanwhile women still oppressed
No. People love Wonka and have fun while going to Disney.
@@zephyrus339 hm, yer correct as "having fun" and Saudi Arabia kinda don't mix and never will either, LOL.
Now THE LINE will be called DOT 😂
Well certainly no one saw that one coming...
To save self respect and ego just build another mindblowing world tallest building and call it a day
Are people seriously still talking about the Hyperloop?
90 percent reduction, running out of money. Everything seems to be on track just as I expected it too.
reduction is not a failure , the technology has failed Elon hyperloop has failed it was part of the project , the project is very expensive over budget due to the lack of technology and market of scale , they reduced it but didn’t give up and they can expand it .
As a Civil Engineer with decades of high-level work, I can say the reason The Line has been scaled back to a mile is because it's a dumb idea.
What are the temperatures in peak season there ? Because Saudi Arabia summer temperatures reach 50+ degrees Celsius. That is like fire coming down on you. I live somewhere where summer temperatures at peak go beyond 50 C and it is unbearable.
Unfortunately the crown prince is not an engineer and has no idea about fluid dynamics it's going to be the biggest Hot house on the planet it will cook everything😂😂
They are building a living solar oven
That's gonna cost a LOT of diesel.
Environment's totally lost here. 😢
This is what happens when you don’t work ground up for your wealth
Making such a city in the middle of the Desert, was ridiculous from the beginning. With no water resources, just sea water. What was this guy thinking …
Maintenance is the main problem
I wonder where the maintenance people are going to live. Since all residents are supposed to work in start-ups.
The thing about the train only taking 20 minutes to get from one end to the other - that assumes that there are no stops, that people aren't getting on or off. Add those factors in, and the thing would have to travel at speeds that would kill the passengers.
Start small, see if it works then slowly expand it
"in just 20 minutes" LMAO
Thats assuming you want to go from one end to the other. Surely there has to be stops in the middle.
Please... 170 Km long, maybe... 400 stops... if each stop is about two seconds, you'd only need to accellerate to 9Gs then slam on the breaks repeatedly to travel from one stop to the next and BAM 170km in 20 minutes. Totally possible.
@@TheEldritchGod Happens all the time in Roadrunner cartoons.
This is the dystopian dream conjured up by a crown prince that favors style over substance. Instead of investing in science and technology, he wants to ape the UAE 😂
Unfortunately maths isn't MBS strong point - he had $58 to spend per cubic metre at a $1tn budget. He claimed it could be done for $250bn.
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??
Math is a beautiful thing. Combined with an ability to smell bull it can take you far
Another channel calced what it would take to have a subway that does 170k in 30min 😂 even funnier result 😂
Work has stopped on NEOM because Yemen has shut down the Red Sea.
What about drainage ......see what happened in Dubai?
That's a lesson, not a setback
The amount of water 250 ml in one day, no drainage system can manage it.. In London its 30 rain over one month
Dubai has no sewage system. They have to have trucks pump it out 24/7. Because of the long queues and delays, some tanker drivers resort to illegally dumping the effluent into storm drains or behind dunes in the desert. The result of sewage dumped into storm drains is that it flows directly into sea of the Persian Gulf, near to the city's prime swimming beaches. Doctors have warned that tourists using the beaches run the risk of contracting serious illnesses like typhoid and hepatitis.
@TK-ro5nn That's another dark side of Dubai that people should know. Let's hope now that UAE and Dubai learn a good lesson and invest more of their billions in more advanced and vanguard methods instead of playing geopolitics by giving money to dictators(Sissi in Egypt, Sudan...).
They have q lot to do to improve their country now instead or it will fall like a castle of cards.
@@TK-ro5nn Dubai is not perfect, however since 30 years not you, the media criticizing Dubai till today, nothing happened, the reality Dubai always improving, glowing, succession going on
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After watching a few videos about this project,i doubt the credibility and intentions of the project managers, architects , construction companies and other who presented this whole structure.
A crazy project to start without trying a smaller practical prototype first.
Nobody should say Cyberpunk2077 is not popular in Saudi Arabia.
With the conflicts in the Middle East, investors are nervous.
Big ambitions, Big words, Big egos, Big fails!
Who wants to live like that is the question. No cars or roads the whole point of life is freedom, get in your vehicle and drive anywhere in your country.
A mirrored building like that would kill vast numbers of migrating birds.
Only if it is directly in their path.
Thanks to the architects😂.(Well experienced)
List down those people's details too.
They left the project to the best of my knowledge.
Grid pattern is the most efficient floor plan for a town. In my area, there are a few villages that came up along the highway. Literally like a line of 1 km. It is a nightmare. To get to a grocery shop, you have to travel half kilometre. In a regular village, it is 25 metre away.
Poor people those lough on Saudi while they are slavers for their business men in their country make them more richer with many poor citizens without Zakat” same Muslims Zakat in Saudi that is why there are no poor citizens in Saudi and they are walking in smart steps on business 🤲🏼 Thanks God الحمدلله
KSA will now host the 2034 world cup and 2030 EXPO and other events which weren’t in the plan when the 2030 vision announced back then, they did a smart move by organizing the priority of all giga projects and trying to meet the promises of the vision projects and the new events as possible…
Rather than failing to meet expectations like some other countries did.
Why did they reduce it? because it's an incredibly stupid idea and will never go anywhere. It's just another future abandoned building project. Not going anywhere.
No roads n cars? How they will live without their luxury cars covered w gold…
It will never happen..if it does be lot shorter take longer..where will the citizens work .its a expensive prison ..no mention of police hospitals or fire stations..something a kid would dream up ...and no alcohol 😂
Full length transport in 20 minutes? why don't you run this crap thru your calculator before repeating it. The 1 percent is about as far as it will progress.
At the moment, according to the consultants working on this project, they are at the point of studying how to supply the city with electricity and looking into the various possible providers.
- Let's build 1000 skyscrapers.
- OK...
- Let's build it in the middle of nowhere...
- Fine...
- ... and organize it in the least practical way possible.
- I'm not sure that's a good...
- Look at this cool CGI!
- Wow, what a great idea!
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Admit it, who didn't expect this?.....
They won't be able to build even 1.5 miles because it's a distopian project.
In the beginning they presented some fancy videos from NEOM work sites - some foreigners were hired as Engineers,Tech Managers etc...... What a PITY !!!!!
It was a gimmick to began with. These ppl will never use there money for the good. Only to out do one another.
"We're opening massive resorts!" "Awesome!" "Yes! No alcohol, morality police on the prowl..." "Do what now?" "Oh..." "Yeaaaaaah...."
The absolutely most hairbrained project in human history.
This is insane but it's still money well spend compared the 2 trillion USA wasted in Afgan war.
Who would like to live in a walled city under a highly monitored and controlled environment? This will be no different from being inside a prison...
For a desert climate the city makes sense. A long trench seems like it would be easier to cool than urban sprawl. I hope the remaining part gets built to see if the concept works.
A city starts small then it grows....can not construct a mega city from scratch
Wow, congrats on inventing the city block, Saudi Arabia!
Genuinely don’t understand how light is supposed to get to the bottom of this…mess
Chicken and Waffles in a drive-thru would be my favorite.
How it is seen on general on the media: MBS Failed, game over go home.
Reality: Neom launched and much focus was dedicated to it. Suddenly Saudi won the host of 2034 World cup plus Expo 2030.
You have to choose and prioritize now.
A good way to transition from oil dependency is... well, education!
But education and a totalitarian dictatorship don't go well together. Those educated people, could develop funny ideas the Prince would not be so happy about...
Hong kong is a good example for a good city wih excellent transportation and everything beinb walkable and near distance
From a national security standpoint this project is a sitting duck to anyone who is targeting the Saudis
It is better to spend the money to build more mega desalination plants and to green the desert, dudes. Just create a normal settlement with highway and bridges to Sharm El Sheikh, a major resort in the south of Sinai, Egypt. That would be a major attraction for people to move to the new settlement.
The funny thing is (or sad) is that there is no investment in the future in this. It’s just like Dubai, lots of buildings amounting to nothing when the oil runs out! 🤦♂️ Imagine Bush Khalifa not being connected to a sewage system and the city of Dubai not having waste water pipes throughout the city because it never rains and when it did the loss of cars was estimated at a billion dollars or maybe even more… 1000 one million $ cars sounds way to little. 🤔
This reminds me of Ben Wyatt’s ice town from parks and rec, which eventually bankrupted the city
Imagine investing this money into an actual infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals, various type of social benefits and so on) for the people instead of trying to build a city in the middle of a desert. This city is basically a very long cruiseship from which you cant probably get out. You are basically living between two giant walls of glass with buildings towering above you from all sides. The oil resources in general should have been nationalized in a way that these sheiks wouldnt be able to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle with the nations oil wealth that should benefit all the people living in that specific country. Like Norway has done with its oil resources.
105 miles in 20 minutes? What about stations between both ends? You believe everything you hear and read on Internet? I think you need to improve a lot your research skills!
Seems to me that the billionaires of SA are stuck for some real meaning in their lives - after all their every whim is always satisfied instantly because nobody is allowed to argue with them, so of course they are all like big kids with far too much personal power & not much actual care for anybody else. I don't think there are too many free peoples from the Western countries that have any furious desire to go & live in their societies even with some of those very beautiful designs, and even tho nowhere is perfect of course I prefer UK, Europe or N. America to almost anywhere else !
How many millions of diesel will it take to build this environmental positive construction?
Looking like a loose/loose situation. 🤪
Having self confidence is good , but getting over confident is dangerous ! How many of you agree with me ?
I wonder what the wind dynamics will result against a wall that long.
When your leadership has too much money to spend
And are surrounded by Yes Men
And has far more dollars than Sense
While having an obsession to spending billions per year
Because the money is burning a hole in their soul
As they feel that they needed these edifices of their spending in order to feel fulfilled
Even that 1.5 mile won't be built of course. This idiocy was never meant to actually be built.
Sooooooo embarrassing. i’m sure majority already knew what was going to happen, but the king who initially approved this rewarded project is so dumb.
MBS should’ve just used that area to make beach resorts.
After seeing all the impossible projects that Neom claimed to have, I'm convinced that the prince Mohammed either played too much minecraft, or he never played but needed to.
Bummer! I was hoping they got it at least halfway built before it fell apart. Oh, well...back to the drawing board.😂
This is basically freedomship 2.0 or the Saudi's Fire Festival
Just the cost and scaling alone have long doomed The Line. Its a lot to plan for and its no surprise things are stalling already. Even if they get the mile or so section complete, it will need outside power to just function as The Line will likely generate next to no power of its own. Even if my chance it gets 100% complete, the city will be very power hungry and its obvious by its design that external power plants will be needed to support a functioning "city".
It just comes down to one thing, its a design that never worked and there is no physical way to make it "sustainable" under it own power. Its a dream project and nothing more.
A pipedream like the hyperloop
they should just buy California
Even 2 1/2 KM is still a fantasy. It will most likely be a normal city blocks, not the empire state building types they envisioned.
How about pay your labour force better salaries give them medical care and uplift Living standards of poor people.
Hey, if they can't build the Line, they should make that pit deeper and let the sea water flow in for a few miles for some extended beachfront property. At least all that digging won't be a total waste.
The Saudis have all that oil money, so they should be designing a nuclear fusion reactor to replace oil energy. They might get lucky.
Very tricky to cloud seed the weather 😂
The problem here is the people who normally invest in these crazy projects are now the ones building the crazy project so there’s nobody to invest in it.
Jesse, I am very sad for you and your family. Your general good humour is always refreshing and you do not deserve such treatment.
When Neom would have been completed and 100 billion light years into the future, this would be nothing.
RIDICOLOUS!!!!!!A LOT OF CLAIM .....ON TOP OF THE WORLD....UNBELIEVABLE FAILURE.....................ENDLESS AMOUNT OF SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Line faces criticism on several fronts:
* Human Rights: The Howeitat tribe, who lived on the land for generations, were forcibly evicted. Some who protested faced imprisonment and executions.
* Sustainability: Building a massive city will have a huge carbon footprint. Experts question if it can truly be eco-friendly.
* Feasibility: The project's scale is immense and some technologies haven't been proven reliable at this size.
* Financial Strain: Funding such a large project is difficult, especially as Saudi Arabia relies on oil, a volatile market.
From the Line to the Dot, apparently.
They never follow thru.
Lol the DOT is the new line!!