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! 💛
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.
"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."
A GLASS ONE! Just like a hothouse! With no water! No food grown nearby! Also, no drinks, and you cannot mix with the opposite, no drinking, and give up your passport. Sounds so FUN!!!
Think of how hot it is going to get in there and thrrr will be no light? I live in Cabo and I love being able to see the ocean every day. Having to live in a weird dystopian box stacked on top of each other with sunlight only for the elites at the top? Ewwww no
@@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
Every culture has fundamental characteristics that date back centuries. Arabs are desert dwelling merchants. They are not scientists, engineers, innovators, and builders, like the Japanese, Germans, or North Americans. Modern Saudi Arabia was not built by Arabs. It was built by engineers that Arabs hired from other parts of the world. This is why it's a failure.
6 Step Big Plan 1. Announce major project 2. Also announce a new palace will be included 3.Palace finishes 5 years ahead of schedule 4. Everything in line of sight of the palace is completed 3 years ahead of schedule 5. Everything else is stuck in a quagmire of corruption to never be completed 6. Announce next big plan
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.
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.
Neom will remain just a dream. When I was still living in Saudi Arabia, the Metro train project was also halted because of corruption. With this huge project, expect everybody to put their dirty fingers in it.
Don’t lie I know someone who’s working their the metro stops bc of the corona virus my brother is working in neom there is 3 islands is supposed to finished in 2030 now it’s finished lol
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
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..
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.
Yeah. I think that’s exactly what they were going for. Dubai and King Maktoum are in the business of making the damn near impossible happen…quickly. But that’s Dubai not the KSA.
This is just a moment in history that we will kook at to show how humans throughout history have gotten progressively lazy. They finished pyramids, and we started digging for a project and just gave up.
@@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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
Old Popular Science is a precursor to the tech era, and coexisted with the refinement of industrialization. The tech era, or post tech era, is probably the final era. Therefore it technically won't be "old". Outdated IEEE publications may be not new, but they are not old either.
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
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.
9:44 - "the mini line would probably be built somewhere between these two end points" - You don't say? I can't fathom how you came up with that idea! Lol. It's funny how one silly line can completely ruin my belief in good reporting.
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 🎉
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
The Kingdom has provided material and moral support to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people since the beginning of the Palestinian cause. The Kingdom made a generous donation at the Arab Summit Conference in Khartoum in 1967 and the Kingdom also committed at the Baghdad Summit in 1978 to provide annual financial support to the Palestinians with a capacity of one billion ninety-seven million and three hundred thousand dollars for a period of ten years (from 1979 to 1989). At the Algiers Emergency Summit in 1987, the Kingdom decided to allocate monthly support for the Palestinian Intifada of $6 million. In the first intifada in 1987, the Kingdom also provided a cash donation to the Palestinian Intifada Fund in the amount of one million four hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars and provided two million dollars to the International Red Cross to buy medicines medical equipment and food for the Palestinians. The Kingdom pledged to finance a development program through the Saudi Fund for Development amounting to three hundred million dollars concerned with the health education and housing sectors.which was announced at the conferences of donor countries during the years 94 - 95 - 97 - 1999 AD. In addition to customs exemptions for Palestinian goods and products. The Kingdom has fulfilled all its assessed contributions according to the Beirut Summit in March 2002 to support the budget of the Palestinian Authority and what was confirmed by the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit in March 2003 by renewing the Arab commitment to this support, as it transferred the full commitment and capacity of 184.8 million dollars for the period from 2002-2004. It also fulfilled all its obligations according to the Tunis Summit in May 2004 for the continuation of financial support for the six-month budget of the Palestinian Authority starting from April until the end of September 2004, where it transferred the full amount and a capacity of 46.2 million dollars. At the Arab Summit Conference in Cairo 2000, the Kingdom took the initiative to propose the establishment of two funds under the name of the "Al-Aqsa Fund and the Jerusalem Intifada Fund with a capital of $1 billion and donated $200 million to the Al-Aqsa Fund, which has a capital of $800 million, and donated $50 million to the Al-Quds Intifada Fund, which has a capital of $200 million. The Kingdom's government also paid attention to the problem of Palestinian refugees, as it provided humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees directly or through international agencies and organizations that deal with refugee affairs such as UNRWA, UNESCO, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the World Bank, and the Islamic Bank. The Kingdom is also regular in paying its assessed contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in UNRWA, represented in its annual contributions of one million and two hundred thousand dollars to the agency's budget, and provided it with exceptional donations amounting to about sixty million and four hundred thousand dollars, to cover the deficit in its budget and implement its programs for Palestinians. During Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to Saudi Arabia in October 2019, he held talks with King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and it was agreed, in response to the Palestinian president's desire, to establish a joint economic committee and a Saudi-Palestinian business council. The Kingdom sought to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and is still striving for the rights of the Palestinian people. Agreements were made with Fatah and Hamas for the sake of Palestine! What is the result today? People like you falsely accuse us of not doing our duty towards the cause of the Arab and Islamic nation! We watched millions of videos of Palestinians insulting us and mocking us, while we were the ones who were donating to them and helping them! They worked with the Jews and the Iranian Persians, the Magians, who wanted nothing but more destruction. People like you don't know the truth
You can’t help someone that refuse to get help. The problem is the Palestinian. You’re either not from the Middle East so you don’t understand or a Palestinian who’s grandfather sold his land and writing this comment from a night club in Europe. It makes feel good to write this comment . Right ?
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!"
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.
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.
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?
Its good to see videos like this. they make a good markting for this project and just a few years until that project become real and a lot of tourist coming there :)
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...
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?
Oh man! I was so hoping that I'd hear your take on this! I have been following an English gentleman who will lay down his genteel manner when it comes to talking about The Line! Gosh, I love the British when they get worked up~! I knew you would keep your professionalism about you, though I have not seen your outtake and B rolls to confirm. To the point: It's a crock of a secret formula no one believes in. I'm not an architect and you don't want me near your electrical or plumbing works, either. Yet I, after about ten minutes of the first promotional film, hooted, gave the TV the raspberries and shut if off. The sad thing was I couldn't concentrate on my work, which is a rather important project. I kept giggling and then roaring--how long would it take to get a plumber out to a specific unit to unclog a clogged toilet? Is anyone talking rentals, fees and floor plans yet? Because this building is going to be the biggest dog on the planet--which is not really want the Crown had in mind. What sealed it in my mind was when a reporter asked Crown Prince Jethro a question about the mega-plan that it had become by then. The prince gave a rambling response that was the equivalent of the Price folding and then flying a paper airplane around the dias, clearly bored. Even if they built the starting section as it was originally envisioned, those pleasure spacecraft buzzing around in the atrium might not be as expected. I see the Crown Prince clarifying that. What he meant to say was The Line will have the biggest projection TV on the planet to show sci-fi and other films. Also, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud looks so dumb, he has an assistant that wipes his drool off.
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.
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?
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.
If real genuine question, the sun and heat there is pretty hot, doesn’t a giant mirror in the middle of the desert would have a bad impact making it more hot? Also, isn’t the cutting of the territory would have a bad repercussion in the transit of the fauna?
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
@@willythemailboy2i wouldnt put a dam there either. Theres places where a dam actually makes a difference like where i live they build a fairly medium sized one and it created a lake that didnt exist before and made the area a little more habitable because its basically a desert
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.
@@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?
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.
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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.
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 we have lost is the willingness to put our hearts into multi-generational projects. There are cathedrals in Europe that have taken 600 years to build, for which builders, architects, masons, bricklayers and carpenters have spent their entire lives for generations, knowing they will never live to see the completion of it. We can't do this. We want results now, not in 600 years. And that's why we endlessly start new projects but can never finish the old ones, because nobody today wants to devote themselves to something they, nor their children, nor their grandchildren, nor their descendants a dozen generations removed, will ever live to see.
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😆😆🩷
As a Saudi citizen, I did not see from the beginning that wasting this large amount of money on the idea of The Line was a sound idea. Rather, I think it is better to divide the project into different stages and periods that may bring us closer to the desired goals and reduce the possibility of losses and their size, and that working on more than one project that targets the country’s wealth and exploiting it is more important than focusing on one project. There is another point that links the Downsizing of The Line project with (Kingdom Tower in Jeddah) which I see as inaccurate, as the tower is mainly owned by a billionaire prince and a number of other investors who are the financiers of this project, the government and the Public Investment Fund have nothing to do with its suspension.
Not necessarily The Line, but a lot of Neom projects are insanely interesting to me. It feels like Humans have slowed down massively on megalithic sites and it seems like most of Neom is going to be these types of projects. For The Line, its not suprising that it starts as a small section. Also the fact that it's a city also makes sense because it will expand the same way cities do as things like taxes, income, and investments make more construction possible. The other sites are things like hotels which need to be built and completed to entirety to start working. Really cool projects, I wish more countries had interesting megalithic project like 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
@@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…
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
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
Crazy or just stupid?
"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."
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You should see the red sea project
A GLASS ONE! Just like a hothouse! With no water! No food grown nearby! Also, no drinks, and you cannot mix with the opposite, no drinking, and give up your passport. Sounds so FUN!!!
Think of how hot it is going to get in there and thrrr will be no light? I live in Cabo and I love being able to see the ocean every day. Having to live in a weird dystopian box stacked on top of each other with sunlight only for the elites at the top? Ewwww no
Trust Fund Royalty, amirite?
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
I swear SA is like a rich child who keeps getting his parents to buy him big expensive lego kits and finishes none of them.
EXACTLY 😂
Every culture has fundamental characteristics that date back centuries. Arabs are desert dwelling merchants. They are not scientists, engineers, innovators, and builders, like the Japanese, Germans, or North Americans. Modern Saudi Arabia was not built by Arabs. It was built by engineers that Arabs hired from other parts of the world. This is why it's a failure.
Don't swear on god if u don't know exactly..
@@ameenrasheed9903 he didnt
Hahahah ok USA 🇺🇸… how different are you? 🤣🤣🤣🫶🏻
6 Step Big Plan
1. Announce major project
2. Also announce a new palace will be included
3.Palace finishes 5 years ahead of schedule
4. Everything in line of sight of the palace is completed 3 years ahead of schedule
5. Everything else is stuck in a quagmire of corruption to never be completed
6. Announce next big plan
what you posted sounds like the day in the life of the Nigerian government....😂😂
Giggety
There is no corruption. The prince is the owner of the cash spent
@@ttiizationand I'm sure he got all that money through perfectly ethical means
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
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
"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.
Saudi Arabia “YOU BURN OIL, WE BURN MONEY”
🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Our money, we live the life we want 🫸🏻
Oil is ours and money as well, and be exited to visit "the most interesting project in the world" 😌
cry abt it
Neom will remain just a dream. When I was still living in Saudi Arabia, the Metro train project was also halted because of corruption. With this huge project, expect everybody to put their dirty fingers in it.
Don’t lie I know someone who’s working their the metro stops bc of the corona virus my brother is working in neom there is 3 islands is supposed to finished in 2030 now it’s finished lol
Pardon me sir, but metro is going to start next month in riyadh!
should be called the dash now
S.O.S
The hyphen perhaps?
__________________ to -- to . 😂
The en dash or em dash? Pick your choice
Very Funny! ❤😂🎉
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
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
Who is going to move there? It can fit 9 million people but you won't get a million people to want to live there.
@@vengie01honey u think building a buildings is hard why Dubai is finished early then ?
We dream and achieve 🇸🇦
One word, UNREALISTIC!!! 😂
They should scrap it all and just make a Dune movie theme park.
lol ye
Nah just go live in Saudi Arabia. That's the real Dune.
You're god d** n right ©️
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
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
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying:
The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.
This thing will happen, I don't know how, but it will happen
A half-baked project that's doomed to fail. Who does Saudi Arabia think they are, Dubai!
Yeah. I think that’s exactly what they were going for. Dubai and King Maktoum are in the business of making the damn near impossible happen…quickly. But that’s Dubai not the KSA.
Maybe the lord of the whole world🤔
How do you see ?🇸🇦
The Trojena Winter Resort sounds like a fine idea. Who wouldn’t want a ski resort in the desert 😂
There is ice in there lol
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.
This is just a moment in history that we will kook at to show how humans throughout history have gotten progressively lazy. They finished pyramids, and we started digging for a project and just gave up.
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
From line to dot is now a full stop...
😉❣
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
Can't wait to go to Saudi with my wife. Such a free country that loves all my ideals..
😂
Just... I recommend SE Asia instead.
3:30 from a line to a dash
Let me just say I cant wait to explore this place once its abandoned..
😂
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
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...
12 🤔
@@Quickshot0 Saudi may return to it's past days again
No. Lego kids still understand limitations.
Oops.
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.
That would take fewer poop-trucks
Was/Is & Will Always Be CLOUD TALK! Theres not enough building materials on Earth to do that!!
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.
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.
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😭😭😭😭😭 😊
@@sarahrosen4985 Unicorns coming to your birthday party are actually more feasible than this project ever becoming reality anytime soon
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 😂
@@sammyandoke9563and they want to fill it with water for cruise ships 🫢
It woudl've been lovely to realize something like that.
Saudi Arabia taught me that with money I can literally try anything and if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter I have infinite chances to make it work.
20 years from now these NEOM videos will give us exactly the same feels as old Popular Science magazines.
Old Popular Science is a precursor to the tech era, and coexisted with the refinement of industrialization. The tech era, or post tech era, is probably the final era. Therefore it technically won't be "old". Outdated IEEE publications may be not new, but they are not old either.
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.
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.
9:44 - "the mini line would probably be built somewhere between these two end points" - You don't say? I can't fathom how you came up with that idea! Lol. It's funny how one silly line can completely ruin my belief in good reporting.
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 🎉
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
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
It seems that the Line will be renamed to offLine.
No
Its the end of the line for "The Line".
بليد@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف
i think greenifying the desert seems more effective for future developments
a desert will remain a desert no matter what u do so they just have to find a way to make a use of all this sand
helping their brother in palestine❌ project silly building✅
Silly willy project
The Kingdom has provided material and moral support to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people since the beginning of the Palestinian cause. The Kingdom made a generous donation at the Arab Summit Conference in Khartoum in 1967 and the Kingdom also committed at the Baghdad Summit in 1978 to provide annual financial support to the Palestinians with a capacity of one billion ninety-seven million and three hundred thousand dollars for a period of ten years (from 1979 to 1989). At the Algiers Emergency Summit in 1987, the Kingdom decided to allocate monthly support for the Palestinian Intifada of $6 million. In the first intifada in 1987, the Kingdom also provided a cash donation to the Palestinian Intifada Fund in the amount of one million four hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars and provided two million dollars to the International Red Cross to buy medicines medical equipment and food for the Palestinians.
The Kingdom pledged to finance a development program through the Saudi Fund for Development amounting to three hundred million dollars concerned with the health education and housing sectors.which was announced at the conferences of donor countries during the years 94 - 95 - 97 - 1999 AD. In addition to customs exemptions for Palestinian goods and products. The Kingdom has fulfilled all its assessed contributions according to the Beirut Summit in March 2002 to support the budget of the Palestinian Authority and what was confirmed by the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit in March 2003 by renewing the Arab commitment to this support, as it transferred the full commitment and capacity of 184.8 million dollars for the period from 2002-2004. It also fulfilled all its obligations according to the Tunis Summit in May 2004 for the continuation of financial support for the six-month budget of the Palestinian Authority starting from April until the end of September 2004, where it transferred the full amount and a capacity of 46.2 million dollars.
At the Arab Summit Conference in Cairo 2000, the Kingdom took the initiative to propose the establishment of two funds under the name of the "Al-Aqsa Fund and the Jerusalem Intifada Fund with a capital of $1 billion and donated $200 million to the Al-Aqsa Fund, which has a capital of $800 million, and donated $50 million to the Al-Quds Intifada Fund, which has a capital of $200 million. The Kingdom's government also paid attention to the problem of Palestinian refugees, as it provided humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees directly or through international agencies and organizations that deal with refugee affairs such as UNRWA, UNESCO, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the World Bank, and the Islamic Bank. The Kingdom is also regular in paying its assessed contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in UNRWA, represented in its annual contributions of one million and two hundred thousand dollars to the agency's budget, and provided it with exceptional donations amounting to about sixty million and four hundred thousand dollars, to cover the deficit in its budget and implement its programs for Palestinians.
During Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to Saudi Arabia in October 2019, he held talks with King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and it was agreed, in response to the Palestinian president's desire, to establish a joint economic committee and a Saudi-Palestinian business council.
The Kingdom sought to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and is still striving for the rights of the Palestinian people. Agreements were made with Fatah and Hamas for the sake of Palestine! What is the result today? People like you falsely accuse us of not doing our duty towards the cause of the Arab and Islamic nation! We watched millions of videos of Palestinians insulting us and mocking us, while we were the ones who were donating to them and helping them! They worked with the Jews and the Iranian Persians, the Magians, who wanted nothing but more destruction. People like you don't know the truth
The juxtaposition of the two is heartbreaking 💔
You can’t help someone that refuse to get help. The problem is the Palestinian. You’re either not from the Middle East so you don’t understand or a Palestinian who’s grandfather sold his land and writing this comment from a night club in Europe. It makes feel good to write this comment . Right ?
@ the problem is ure not muslim so stfu
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.
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!
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.
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?
The deflected wind at the end of the 170km line might be powerful.
Its good to see videos like this. they make a good markting for this project and just a few years until that project become real and a lot of tourist coming there :)
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’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.
I expect this project to leave an enigmatic ruin in the desert for thousands of years.
I hope they succeed. This would be cool!
Oh man! I was so hoping that I'd hear your take on this! I have been following an English gentleman who will lay down his genteel manner when it comes to talking about The Line! Gosh, I love the British when they get worked up~! I knew you would keep your professionalism about you, though I have not seen your outtake and B rolls to confirm.
To the point: It's a crock of a secret formula no one believes in. I'm not an architect and you don't want me near your electrical or plumbing works, either. Yet I, after about ten minutes of the first promotional film, hooted, gave the TV the raspberries and shut if off. The sad thing was I couldn't concentrate on my work, which is a rather important project. I kept giggling and then roaring--how long would it take to get a plumber out to a specific unit to unclog a clogged toilet? Is anyone talking rentals, fees and floor plans yet? Because this building is going to be the biggest dog on the planet--which is not really want the Crown had in mind.
What sealed it in my mind was when a reporter asked Crown Prince Jethro a question about the mega-plan that it had become by then. The prince gave a rambling response that was the equivalent of the Price folding and then flying a paper airplane around the dias, clearly bored.
Even if they built the starting section as it was originally envisioned, those pleasure spacecraft buzzing around in the atrium might not be as expected. I see the Crown Prince clarifying that. What he meant to say was The Line will have the biggest projection TV on the planet to show sci-fi and other films. Also, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud looks so dumb, he has an assistant that wipes his drool off.
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.
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?
So its now called The Dot?😅
The Dash
No, it's called " the end of the line" 😂
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.
If real genuine question, the sun and heat there is pretty hot, doesn’t a giant mirror in the middle of the desert would have a bad impact making it more hot? Also, isn’t the cutting of the territory would have a bad repercussion in the transit of the fauna?
You're building a dystopian prison.
@@karlaju.Do you really think they care about the fauna? That was never a problem to any rich people doing their business
Its SA they font care about people you expect them to care about environment lol @@karlaju.
This is such a clever idea, as once established the line can easily grow wider creating villages and towns and even farms!
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.
Nice information video
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
As always... it's only about: my line is longer than your line. It's just a princess dream.
Good video, thank you)
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.
First bro great video
I was first
Get back in the line 😅
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 theory, the line is awesome idea. I hope they can achieve it, it will be wonderful achievement👍
Bless everyone who participated in this project 😢. I wanna join this project also as a civil engineer
So good to know that the Saudis have so much water as well as money and common sense for Noem and The Wall.
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).
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.
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
@@willythemailboy2i wouldnt put a dam there either. Theres places where a dam actually makes a difference like where i live they build a fairly medium sized one and it created a lake that didnt exist before and made the area a little more habitable because its basically a desert
Damn thrleese projects are crazyyyyy
Amazing
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?
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.
Calm down, it's just another usage of the parasite word to attract investment :)
Good video about the line
We are one of the formwork suppliers for this and was halted due to problems. We don’t really know when of if the project will resume.
It does not matter. Every progress starts with vision, fantasy. At least they tried. ❤
Saudi Arabia is like in a situation where they are about to hit the iceberg have you watch for all mankind yet?
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?
I can see 'Mini line' becoming 'Tiny line!', which might not be a line anymore! 🤔
heads will roll for this one
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.
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.
@@Mister.Bone_Saw who is Kershina? You created this new God?
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…
What we have lost is the willingness to put our hearts into multi-generational projects. There are cathedrals in Europe that have taken 600 years to build, for which builders, architects, masons, bricklayers and carpenters have spent their entire lives for generations, knowing they will never live to see the completion of it.
We can't do this. We want results now, not in 600 years. And that's why we endlessly start new projects but can never finish the old ones, because nobody today wants to devote themselves to something they, nor their children, nor their grandchildren, nor their descendants a dozen generations removed, will ever live to see.
Maybe a sample line or model line? That's what all new construction homes do. They build one sample and get the investors into the project.
1:08 Why the hell are the trees levitating!?
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😆😆🩷
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.
As a Saudi citizen, I did not see from the beginning that wasting this large amount of money on the idea of The Line was a sound idea. Rather, I think it is better to divide the project into different stages and periods that may bring us closer to the desired goals and reduce the possibility of losses and their size, and that working on more than one project that targets the country’s wealth and exploiting it is more important than focusing on one project.
There is another point that links the Downsizing of The Line project with (Kingdom Tower in Jeddah) which I see as inaccurate, as the tower is mainly owned by a billionaire prince and a number of other investors who are the financiers of this project, the government and the Public Investment Fund have nothing to do with its suspension.
Not necessarily The Line, but a lot of Neom projects are insanely interesting to me. It feels like Humans have slowed down massively on megalithic sites and it seems like most of Neom is going to be these types of projects. For The Line, its not suprising that it starts as a small section. Also the fact that it's a city also makes sense because it will expand the same way cities do as things like taxes, income, and investments make more construction possible. The other sites are things like hotels which need to be built and completed to entirety to start working.
Really cool projects, I wish more countries had interesting megalithic project like 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…
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.
Build something people can afford
i hate to pick on such things.. however the way you say "but".. i cant unhear it now