The only shocking part is that the project wasn't reduced 100%.
@chucnguyen1014 ай бұрын
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 ?
@roycavitt45444 ай бұрын
Another ego's waisted a countries money, the architects and engineers that told them to spend this money should be in jail.
@nananananananananana21323 ай бұрын
@@roycavitt4544 a new way to bankrupt a country in a polite way😂
@joeybox0rox6493 ай бұрын
Arabian grifters gotta grift.
@bathhatingcat86263 ай бұрын
@@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.
@rajm26264 ай бұрын
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...
@everyoneloveit4 ай бұрын
i said the same thing all that money is have them delusional asf
@Ggnmgjhg4 ай бұрын
Small penis, no doubt
@moozillamoo21094 ай бұрын
Yes he really did. Probably still does.
@chucnguyen1014 ай бұрын
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
@ZHIRO14 ай бұрын
@@chucnguyen101yes
@Jurmyhyle124 ай бұрын
The whole project is just a case where a country has more money than it has sense.
@Ggnmgjhg4 ай бұрын
And neurones
@heyoa77143 ай бұрын
As a Saudi I hope my government cancel the project because it may bankrupt the country
@trevorhoward76823 ай бұрын
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.
@phdonme13 ай бұрын
Don't say that MBS will have you chopped up bro.
@YoutubeWatcher2643 ай бұрын
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.
@SolarWindsRider4 ай бұрын
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.
@kevinm37514 ай бұрын
The line at any scale is the most ignorant idea anyone has ever even considered!
@protorhinocerator1424 ай бұрын
The Space Elevator comes close. Barrack Obama proposing we build a literal Death Star is worse by far.
@puirYorick4 ай бұрын
@@protorhinocerator142 A link to that footage please?
@Kodakcompactdisc4 ай бұрын
@@protorhinocerator142did Alex jones tell you that?
@vowel82803 ай бұрын
@@protorhinocerator142 Source please!
@taxol24 ай бұрын
So now instead of the line, it becomes the dash? Updtae might even become the dot or the goner (cancelled) 😂
@AudreysBrains4 ай бұрын
OMG 😂
@ntej79273 ай бұрын
🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@jasondavenport55773 ай бұрын
Daesh?
@Bb131903 ай бұрын
I call it the segment.
@SusanS7773 ай бұрын
😂😂
@iggy-a14 ай бұрын
A 5 minute "smart" city? No drinking or smoking, singing or dancing, no cars, no property, no neighbours, no churches, no escape. No thanks.
@rxb3643 ай бұрын
Low people carbon emission cities like this already exists. .... Prison
@zephyrus3393 ай бұрын
And to top it off it has been calculated that only 2% of all people live within 5min from each other.
@2livenoob3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@djmetalworks73253 ай бұрын
and who will be living on that, the fact that as expats you cannot get a citizenhip ststus
@anonygrazer32343 ай бұрын
But plenty of peds
@rajm26264 ай бұрын
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.
@mthej62113 ай бұрын
Imagine he would've invested the money into a solar park.. Energy costs could be practically 0 in his country without emissions.
@edwarddeitman11954 ай бұрын
imagine a fire inside it at 200 meters high
@synaestesia-bg3ew4 ай бұрын
They actually got a plan
@senju20244 ай бұрын
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.
@protorhinocerator1424 ай бұрын
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.
@kaitospin39444 ай бұрын
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.
@sabrinarodrigues6294 ай бұрын
They did this to Palm Islands in Dubai. One worked and then they went for another one. It failed..
@rtzx125702 ай бұрын
How else are they able to move the money from the govt/state/family pot into his friends and partners in the commercial world.
@michelgranger50754 ай бұрын
The crown prince should stop using hard drugs.
@josephsgroi44744 ай бұрын
There’s so much money out they can’t figure out how to squander it any faster.
@JanLion-zb1bd4 ай бұрын
I said from the very beginning that a line is not a city. Even the 2% will fail
@abdelrahmanho44433 ай бұрын
Exactly, same thoughts I have
@peterderycke57664 ай бұрын
Well certainly no one saw that one coming...
@organickevinlondon4 ай бұрын
Might as well collectively call these projects "Wonka-Islamo-Disney"
@sabrinarodrigues6294 ай бұрын
Meanwhile women still oppressed
@zephyrus3393 ай бұрын
No. People love Wonka and have fun while going to Disney.
@organickevinlondon3 ай бұрын
@@zephyrus339 hm, yer correct as "having fun" and Saudi Arabia kinda don't mix and never will either, LOL.
@ltcolumbo97084 ай бұрын
To save self respect and ego just build another mindblowing world tallest building and call it a day
@jthomashable4 ай бұрын
90 percent reduction, running out of money. Everything seems to be on track just as I expected it too.
@FS-eh4dj4 ай бұрын
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 .
@bjt813664 ай бұрын
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.
@MURUGESANA-xo8bi3 ай бұрын
Now THE LINE will be called DOT 😂
@prebenmortensen64083 ай бұрын
Are people seriously still talking about the Hyperloop?
@bannedone3ice1384 ай бұрын
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.
@bannedone3ice1384 ай бұрын
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 …
@JohnJohansen24 ай бұрын
That's gonna cost a LOT of diesel. Environment's totally lost here. 😢
@essaboselin52523 ай бұрын
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.
@FlamespeedyAMV4 ай бұрын
Start small, see if it works then slowly expand it
@JD-te6vm4 ай бұрын
This is what happens when you don’t work ground up for your wealth
@stephenallen43744 ай бұрын
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😂😂
@skyabhinav13 ай бұрын
They are building a living solar oven
@aono3353 ай бұрын
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 😂
@davidbarlow51484 ай бұрын
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??
@jimathybindlenim63593 ай бұрын
Math is a beautiful thing. Combined with an ability to smell bull it can take you far
@mthej62113 ай бұрын
Another channel calced what it would take to have a subway that does 170k in 30min 😂 even funnier result 😂
@rickbecket28203 ай бұрын
Work has stopped on NEOM because Yemen has shut down the Red Sea.
@KingAlphaOmega4 ай бұрын
Maintenance is the main problem
@zephyrus3393 ай бұрын
I wonder where the maintenance people are going to live. Since all residents are supposed to work in start-ups.
@ptseti4 ай бұрын
Jamal Khashoggi is smiling in his grave. RIP soldier..KARMA is doing your work!!👍🏿😌😌🙏🏿
@jordana88994 ай бұрын
"in just 20 minutes" LMAO
@castlegate20154 ай бұрын
Thats assuming you want to go from one end to the other. Surely there has to be stops in the middle.
@TheEldritchGod3 ай бұрын
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.
@larky3683 ай бұрын
@@TheEldritchGod Happens all the time in Roadrunner cartoons.
@NeilPower3 ай бұрын
A crazy project to start without trying a smaller practical prototype first.
@naturalbeautysolutions9233 ай бұрын
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.
@ullah83394 ай бұрын
What about drainage ......see what happened in Dubai?
@synaestesia-bg3ew4 ай бұрын
That's a lesson, not a setback
@abdelrahmanho44433 ай бұрын
The amount of water 250 ml in one day, no drainage system can manage it.. In London its 30 rain over one month
@TK-ro5nn3 ай бұрын
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.
@synaestesia-bg3ew3 ай бұрын
@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.
@abdelrahmanho44433 ай бұрын
@@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
@synaestesia-bg3ew4 ай бұрын
With the conflicts in the Middle East, investors are nervous.
@merdufer3 ай бұрын
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@funzario1443 ай бұрын
Nobody should say Cyberpunk2077 is not popular in Saudi Arabia.
@mariomovillon16133 ай бұрын
Big ambitions, Big words, Big egos, Big fails!
@Uroki_ANGLIYSKOGO_s_Nulya_3 ай бұрын
They won't be able to build even 1.5 miles because it's a distopian project.
@haileyr.s81072 ай бұрын
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.
@imcyborg4 ай бұрын
Thanks to the architects😂.(Well experienced) List down those people's details too.
@ntej79273 ай бұрын
They left the project to the best of my knowledge.
@Tictacsizesoul3 ай бұрын
No roads n cars? How they will live without their luxury cars covered w gold…
@naifalghamdi34453 ай бұрын
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.
@howardsimpson4894 ай бұрын
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.
@skoumastv4 ай бұрын
Hong kong is a good example for a good city wih excellent transportation and everything beinb walkable and near distance
@rogermoore89773 ай бұрын
Chicken and Waffles in a drive-thru would be my favorite.
@ntej79273 ай бұрын
In the beginning they presented some fancy videos from NEOM work sites - some foreigners were hired as Engineers,Tech Managers etc...... What a PITY !!!!!
@khalid4043 ай бұрын
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
@Lumposaurus3 ай бұрын
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.
@andyrobinson63643 ай бұрын
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 😂
@Mich4elCorleone4 ай бұрын
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.
@josephspruill12124 ай бұрын
It was a gimmick to began with. These ppl will never use there money for the good. Only to out do one another.
@user-hd4jc1ct8q3 ай бұрын
A mirrored building like that would kill vast numbers of migrating birds.
@surunitemiakanni-oye43463 ай бұрын
Only if it is directly in their path.
@ullah83394 ай бұрын
A city starts small then it grows....can not construct a mega city from scratch
@RamasArrow3 ай бұрын
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.
@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin3 ай бұрын
Wow, congrats on inventing the city block, Saudi Arabia!
@Maaaryl0u3 ай бұрын
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.
@vincentlussier82648 күн бұрын
These idiots are overly ambitious if they think they'll ever finish half of it ! One question, how are they going to clean all those mirror windows under the blazing sun ?
@gtc99664 ай бұрын
Genuinely don’t understand how light is supposed to get to the bottom of this…mess
@SgtRocko3 ай бұрын
"We're opening massive resorts!" "Awesome!" "Yes! No alcohol, morality police on the prowl..." "Do what now?" "Oh..." "Yeaaaaaah...."
@10against14 ай бұрын
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.
@swilhelm31803 ай бұрын
The absolutely most hairbrained project in human history.
@sadguru19693 ай бұрын
Having self confidence is good , but getting over confident is dangerous ! How many of you agree with me ?
@marctheriault55314 ай бұрын
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!
@jakemarcus99993 ай бұрын
This is insane but it's still money well spend compared the 2 trillion USA wasted in Afgan war.
@chrisboehnlein5303 ай бұрын
This reminds me of Ben Wyatt’s ice town from parks and rec, which eventually bankrupted the city
@mrfranchise4 ай бұрын
This is basically freedomship 2.0 or the Saudi's Fire Festival
@bannedone3ice1384 ай бұрын
MBS should’ve just used that area to make beach resorts.
@jasondavenport55773 ай бұрын
From a national security standpoint this project is a sitting duck to anyone who is targeting the Saudis
@JohnJohansen24 ай бұрын
How many millions of diesel will it take to build this environmental positive construction? Looking like a loose/loose situation. 🤪
@user-cy1oq5zb5u3 ай бұрын
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...
@bioLarzen3 ай бұрын
Even that 1.5 mile won't be built of course. This idiocy was never meant to actually be built.
@roysmallian28893 ай бұрын
Jesse, I am very sad for you and your family. Your general good humour is always refreshing and you do not deserve such treatment.
@veronicaroach36674 ай бұрын
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 !
@lancemarchetti86733 ай бұрын
It seems it's always April 1st in the middle east
@fmcdomer4 ай бұрын
they should just buy California
@brickomglol75253 ай бұрын
Admit it, who didn't expect this?.....
@DundG3 ай бұрын
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...
@brendatajik61503 ай бұрын
Bummer! I was hoping they got it at least halfway built before it fell apart. Oh, well...back to the drawing board.😂
@Jace-yt2zm7 күн бұрын
Yeah, perhaps a quarter mile long prototype would demonstrate what a bad idea this actually is. But they’re very good at producing slick renderings . . .
@leob46453 ай бұрын
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.
@lyeseng3 ай бұрын
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.
@kingcellous76634 ай бұрын
It would be neat to build this on the moon Mars or venus
@artisticgamer777Ай бұрын
not appropriate for atmospheric, radiation conditions there. also the function of the city's line shape on these worlds is perhaps not so useful compared to a circular series of underground domes.
@DundG3 ай бұрын
A pipedream like the hyperloop
@user-yr2fo5kv6zАй бұрын
One exoert recently calculated that it would cost 100 yrs of their GNP to get these projects completed.✋😂
@bradrothberg58634 ай бұрын
They never follow thru.
@Kodakcompactdisc4 ай бұрын
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.
@RANIYAFAI3 ай бұрын
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.
@bokhans3 ай бұрын
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. 🤔
@shara19293 ай бұрын
When Neom would have been completed and 100 billion light years into the future, this would be nothing.
@kittymurrah74004 ай бұрын
Somebody has been watching the Jetsons!!! All this is too bizarre and useless!
@SA-xd2os3 ай бұрын
How about pay your labour force better salaries give them medical care and uplift Living standards of poor people.
@flaviocigarini1234 ай бұрын
RIDICOLOUS!!!!!!A LOT OF CLAIM .....ON TOP OF THE WORLD....UNBELIEVABLE FAILURE.....................ENDLESS AMOUNT OF SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@sliceofheaven30263 ай бұрын
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.
@Jungletrump3 ай бұрын
I wonder what the wind dynamics will result against a wall that long.
@oculosprudentium84863 ай бұрын
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
@frankneser60554 ай бұрын
The Line is -and always was- a wet dream very much distant from reality, even the reduced version.