Work on Saudi Arabia's audacious megacity, the Line, is ongoing, and its first phase is expected to be completed in 2030Teneo Strategy LLC, on behalf of Neom Company
I smell the making of a monstrous ghost city.
I know where they can get all the mirrors they need...dirt cheap.
It sounds like the making of the most expensive Vanity Project on earth, serving not very many people when/ if completed. I’m thinking of my CA Gov. Newsom’s Train To Nowhere boondogle, multiplied by a factor of 15.
Dubai is another middle east location, noted for it’s numerous excessively overbuilt public structures, done mainly ‘because they can.’
I swear that looks like one of the dystopian villas from Judge Dredd.
You look up “boondoggle” in the dictionary and there’s a picture of this development. Are they trying to outdo the Chinese in mega-cities where nobody actually lives?
CC
500m tall
No, nothing will ever be flown into it...
Oil does not come from fossils. Secondly, we have more oil than we can use.
Tourism?
Really?
Yall gonna waste 20% of the world’s steel on a tourist trap?
Wow...
It’s all part of Saudis’ long-term plan to become the world’s largest exporter of scrap steel.