[lee martell]

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.’

[SunkenCiv]

There was a polemical vid I saw a few days ago, one criticism in it noted that it took eight years to build the current WTC in NYC, and this project amounts to more than 1000 of those. So really it's just a matter of scaling up -- recruiting and/or training more than 1000 times the number of skilled highrise construction workers that were needed for the WTC, and finishing the whole works in eight years. Wait, what was that sound?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I’m thinking of my CA Gov. Newsom’s Train To Nowhere boondogle, multiplied by a factor of 15.

The Line City may turn out to be a mega-boondoggle, but at least the Saudis will complete it, and they'll complete it on time.

Not only will California's Train to Nowhere never be complete, but construction will never start. The purpose of California's bullet train project is not to actually construct a bullet line, but to fund the Democrats' patronage system, like the unaccounted billions for "homeless shelters."

[GOPJ]

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Percy Bysshe Shelle