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Who didn’t see this coming? Seemed a bit obvious at the start.

The Line sounds like a high-end prison.

dumbest project in history

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.

Oftentimes, when common sense and simple logic are overshadowed by sheer stupidity, this outcome usually happens.

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.

From line to dot is now a full stop...

"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."

Nobody asked whether the Line would happen, everybody said that it was a stupid idea.

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.

Let me just say I cant wait to explore this place once its abandoned..

should be called the dash now

People who would live in "the line" are the kind that set reminders on their phones to inhale and exhale

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❤️

Why not just build 1km and see if it attracts enough interest?

It seems that the Line will be renamed to offLine.

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

Holy shit they actually started to build it? I considered it a PR stunt from the start!

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.

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!

Even the Chinese think this is a crazy plan.

With all that money, can they just make a terraforming mega project that turns the desert around them into a forest or something?

So its now called The Dot?😅

Who wouldn't want to live in a tightly packed hellhole, overlooked by an Islamic AI ?! 😧

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.

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.

20 years from now these NEOM videos will give us exactly the same feels as old Popular Science magazines.

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 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

I expect this project to leave an enigmatic ruin in the desert for thousands of years.

In 20 years I see myself going on a tour in the desert to look at the abandoned Line, should be a cool UrbeX expereince.

If Saudi Arabia is serious about building this, I do not understand why they haven’t figured out that they could assemble the Line the way cruise ships are built after the construction of a supporting superstructure that would be much less expensive. Everything else would be prefabricated modular and installed in sections.

Even claiming they’ve “laid the foundations” is a considerable stretch: they’ve simply dug a long trench in the desert sand.

Something about the lack of guard rails in the concept videos make me think investors are not interested in a death trap.

If their AI was any good it would have told them not to build it.

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.

They’re so rich that they can spend billions on structures that are never finished and not even break a sweat.

"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."

It finally makes sense to me what The Line and Neom really are. They're Epcot; a theme park pretending to be a futuristic city. It's kinda funny and kinda sad... humanity would rather roleplay that we're in some futuristic utopia rather than getting down to really trying to be one.

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.

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.

the line was always a dumb idea , living in it would mean you are always the max distance from any other part of the city you wanted to go to

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.

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?

So good to know that the Saudis have so much water as well as money and common sense for Noem and The Wall.

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.

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).

Nice information video

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

Jeddah Tower is different. It’s not owned by the PIF. So, we can’t judge NEOM by a private project that has nothing to do with the owners of NEOM. To us (Saudis), the PIF has a great record of delivering their hundreds of projects on time or slightly delayed but always exceeding expectations and over delivering.

I’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.

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.

Good video about the line

The way you deliver the information is really attractive, appreciate all your efforts 👍🏻

When you think about how they treat the workers and the slavery they let happen , no savvy investor would want to be associated with that .

Sentence to deth for protesting that the line was crossing through your homeland? Wow that's very wild! What a country

Jeddah tower is not state funded, try to be accurate when comparing

I love these updates

I am here near the construction. I have never seen so much dirt moved in my career. It is amazing.

How long is it supposed to take window washers to clean the outside?

There's something people seem to misunderstand. Saudi Arabia never planned to build the whole line at once or alone. The plan was to construct a small portion of it first, and expand with increase in demand. In all NEOM project announced till date, private investors and large corporations are somewhat part of the financing plan, including THE LINE. They can definitely afford to build most of those projects (financially), but it will be them taking up all the risk which is very high. But if they can convince a couple of resorts, hotel and vacation/tourism companies to invest too, those companies will also help boast sales and drive more companies to open shoe there.

I've never seen any drawings of what it will actually look like. It's always these vague models and drawings.

It's more like a dash, isn't it? :P

First bro great video

What saudi Arabia should since running out of funds, is to dig the the foundation for as far as they can and connect it to the red sea, then flood it with seawater for fishery, desalinate water for drinking and supply electricity from solar.

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 :)

The Chinese are a bit too pragmatic to go all in on stuff 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

The mini line can still be said to just be the first part to be added to later as time goes on

I think the marina part of the line is the best place, since it could be a very popular destination to visit and generate the most tourist excitement and business.

All the concrete this will consume. Thank God for the paper McDonalds straws that will offset the Line….

Do a video of quiddiya and the theme park that is getting built there. It would be so interesting

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.

I bet you or whoever the editor is was so happy for this golden opportunity of a title.

Sounds like something out of Elons imagination…..

What’s difficult, is they have to keep an open mind on technology... because at the rate it's being built, humans are creating newer and more advanced technology... maybe at some point we will come up with something way better and way more efficient than “The Line."

When this project was announced, I warned that either it will be abandoned or only a small portion of line would be built. I also warned that they would start excavations, but then "stop", claiming they are unable to secure funding. Well, lo and behold. But why? Ask them.

Saudi Arabia is like in a situation where they are about to hit the iceberg have you watch for all mankind yet?

I really hope this doesn't get abandoned, I've been following this really cool peroject since i heard about it.

So the line wasn't feasible after all? Oh noooo! Anyway.

Also, in the world are towns or cities that are elongate urban areas but that only happens when the main income of the town is the ROAD that goes from point A to point B, and they have their own importance/weight in the commerce that make the town get elongate instead of the most common circular shape

Its an huge W for all buster videos and people who said it wont happen

Why do you keep spreading rumours? There is no reduction in project size!! 🇸🇦

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Even if they had $1tn, it would mean spending only $58 per cubic metre on the original Line. Then you need to add groundworks, design and infrastructure. TBH the line is as fictional as religion. They'll need a god to build it. Lets see how that goes for them.

This video was great. The music was fire. Intense and captivating. Like an investigative report mystery show

I agree with your assessment of the reduced Module for the line near Gayal. A main reason is the proximity to the Red Sea. The western end is inconveniently located in the gulf of Aqaba, it would mean a detour for any yachts and ships cruising the Red Sea. I believe they will construct something similar to the section with the internal marina, where those with access credentials can park their big boats. Furthermore they might build a high-speed railway/maglev connection from Gayal along the excavated Line trench all the way East until they hit the mountain range. There you can see something called FCS West Portal… and a bit further FCS JV Adit 2. Clearly they are digging into the mountain, some massive tunneling or excavation operation is going on there. Imho the Line was partially intended as a kind a mega doomsday shelter/evacuation site for a chosen group of people, and the Mini Line could function as a rapid docking and transfer hub to a safe underground location in the mountains, when shtf during an upcoming global cataclysm. This way you could stay outside and enjoy life on your super yacht in the Red Sea, or at Sindalah island and then head over to the line when you get the warning message. They are prepping for something big that could happen as soon as the mid 2030s to mid 2040s, something related to the weakening magnetic field of our planets, the rapidly shifting magnetic poles, and potential solar storms hitting the Earth… end-times movie script stuff.

Saudi Arabia has perfected the art of announcing and 3-D rendering ridiculous mega-projects.

Don’t stop now! I’m writing a horror novel set in a dystopian Arab ghetto nightmare city where people are forced to live their whole lives without seeing a sunset or nature.

Saudi Arabia is like playing the old Sim City with cheat codes on. Just plopping things without care and without demand.

They should have just put up an 8 foot fence for one hundred feet and an tacky tourist booth selling ice tea to camel riders and landrovering groups as the damn 100 foot line in the desert

If they don't build it, they have the beginnings of a great water storage.

they should’ve hired minecraft youtubers they would dig out the perimeter and build the whole thing in 5 months💀

Seems like one of those ideas that would be much cheaper if it could be done on a massive scale. By building a city in a line, you could use a few railway tracks to hold the machinery necessary to build and lift and parts of the city and you could also standardize many of the parts and thus benefit from the economics of scale. For those reasons, the idea is actually pretty good so long as the people in charge use them instead of just trying to turn the place into a luxury city. Building up internet and connectivity infrastructure would be essential for such a city since it can't exactly be used for manufacturing or physical trade. It would also be nice to have a long area of shade in the desert. Let me put my thoughts this way; its a great idea but only if its done right.

Pretty funny the reference you used for scale considering all the elements. 😅😅😅

In 2030 they plan to announce The Square: revolutionary city with roads in multiple directions.

Sounds like a true dystopian city, with ”security forces”…

If the line gets cancelled, it will be the second city line to be started and stopped. Though the first one was finished and still excits today.

To the potential business investors: " what return do you realistically expect to get from this which is managed by people who have no clue about efficient financial or operational management?" " How would this very risky investment be a better place to put your money, when you could invest in another proven hub with proven building designs in proven markets with legal backing, in places people actuallly want to live?. Im listening" To the potential residents there: " Why would you want to live in a big box, with no direct sunlight or fresh air, in the middle of a sand desert nowhere near the coast. " To the people considering buying a slot at that marina: " why would you put your boat in a space that will be permanently hidden from sunshine (the alignment showed the marina in the shadow of the building). "