Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City
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In January of this year, Saudi Arabia announced an immense new development project, that is supposed to set a blueprint for the future of the country and the world. The country will build a city, that stretches along a single 100 mile long line
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“Man, I thought you said you lived right down the road”
LOL underrated comment
"Yeah dude, just 170 kilometers away"
Just think running to the gocery store and coming back.
*Snickering .. hehehehee
That underground traffic _line_ will have to be utterly massive. Perhaps you'll need a dozen parallel metros, in the middle.
wow I hadnt heard of this. thanks for the excellent video.
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Love your work man!
Thank you so much. Big fan of your work!
hmmmmmm........from where you want to hear about this i mean..... nsa hearing is strong as you know other then praisng the vid we might end up in fed jail..... right.. xd uncle joe with his cummuinst party get angry really quick
I'll be looking for your take on this in the future Mr. Harris :3!
This guy has the most underrated intro in the world
Fact
@@councilornevec8249 fact fact
I didn't realize there was an intro. I don't watch intros.
i guess you are right
The intro gives me shivers watching it. Pretty impressive for someone who’s only put out a few (very good) videos.
SCIENTIST: We need to restructure and diversify the economy
SUPREME LEADER: I will spend 1 trillion on a line city.
In a culture with very little innovation or productivity. It's going to be one giant air conditioned fascist dystopian shopping hell, stinking of perfume and sheesha.
Had you care about it, you would protest at usa and uk bombing MENA all year round. But no. It is bad when non-western do it.
@@pierrebitcan Pauper People call it dystopia as if it is from future when wealth gap exist everywhere today. Or the desert look post apocalypse instead of desert was always there
Conservatives fear (mongering) is funny
@@ozymandias4988 yes, (and I dislike USA a lot)
there is nothing in saudi arabia, only oil. But u find oil everywhere if you stick a pipe. U keep it in the ocean oand in desert to not have it ontop of soil and ppl. Makes no sence to have a huge city here. They have huge city in egypt. Build a dock and some housing for the oilrigs and let ppl work there on shifts from egypt.
Tourist: Where is (a place)
Citizen: Oh, just go straight.
Good one😹
😂😭✋
Sir, you just passed it. You have to go back.
Does anyone else think that... this could solve some world problems?
Thats funny
As a sim city expert I can guarantee there will be a traffic and fire problem.
Not to mention a lot of pollution from the airport...lol
I was thinking on the same lines as you. That or Skylines.
This is underrated, lmao
Not at all. You can totally build a huge linear city in CS without any traffic jam, you just need to plan carefully your roads and subways, and connect everything with pedestrian paths.
It depends but the metro underground station has various lines to keep traffic out but I don't know what their pedestrian walkways will look like. They are probably going to be wide and compact.
In normal cities-" Road closed for maintainence, take diversion"
In neom- " city closed for road maintenance, come back tomorrow"
@[REDACTED] they must move the poop in their hyperloop system
@Puneet singh,an atheist,fights for good healthcare Yep. We all did.
Lol what a lack of imagination; just because it says linear doesn’t mean not layered… they will have multiple “lines” from point A to B including a line to walk/bike if need be!
😂 1 suicide bomber and the whole city’s shut down
Apvps b, lpl bpnp
1. The high-speed train cannot be very fast if there are many stations.
2. The Kai Tak Runway Redevelopment Project in Hong Kong, about 200m wide with skyscrapers on both sides, is a pilot example of the Line. Hard to avoid congestion if all people are travelling on the same route. In addition, if the only transportation route is down, the entire city will be down.
يمكنهم في مدينة كهذه ان يصنعو دور ثاني من الخطوط الحديدية للقطار عليك الترجمة ياصديقي😂
You basically need a bunch of trains all going along the line, some of them skipping less travelled to stops
When you need to connect sections in City Skylines but don’t want to buy electrical lines
they're gonna invest in blimps
Photovoltaics. Photovoltaics everywhere.
@@Coralysis2390 Will meteors strike the city?
@@marcosolo6491 basically American
Or to avoid traffics
Can't imagine being the pizza guy in this city.
Should be pretty easy, right? Pizza *straight* to the customer's house
@@dh4913 True, the pizza guy would have an easy job
Can’t imagine there being a singular pizza restaurant...
Robotics"
No need. They'll have s robot doing the deliveries. No need for low paint jobs in this rich city
Future Neom ad: "Imagine your life without google maps."
Wifvout
Stop giving them ideas
Bruh💀
Continue for 40 Miles...
You have reached your destination...
They've apparently updated this project. The line will now have large glass walls on the sides, and the city will now be compacted vertically between the walls. So basically if you leave your home to go to a store, you might have to travel up or down elevators or stairs.
Look up Kowloon walled city as an example, but imagine it looking shiny and long.
It's like they thought the desert wasn't hot enough so they decided to find a way to make the surrounding area even hotter...
I swear this whole project has to be some kind of joke. It's insane
So the birds won't just go extinct by slamming into the thing, they'd be vaporized by the reflective heat of the city for miles and miles outwards
🧑🚒🚨One big fire 🌋🏴☠ or an earthquake ♨?
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🗺⛺🚷Useless brown-glazed waste mountain-range™.🏜⛺🐪🌴
@@mushmush4980 what birds? it's a desert.
@@imarchello bruh birds migrate through them
"Where you live?"
"Just down the street."
Lol
But like, a long way down.
the street:
"right down the road?"
"right down the road!"
"Right down the road..."
"Right down... Bye bye!!!"
174th km block 😂😂
"Where's the Mall?"
"Just keep going Straight"
You can't miss it
...Oh, wrong way
😂😂😂
The city consists of three layers (underground) however, the malls will be the second layer (2nd floor downstair) and the 3rd one will be fast trains which will take you from the starting point of the city to the ending point within just 20 sec
Cheers
Omar from saudi
LMAO. No misdirection.
Urban planner draws one straight line
Urban planner: you like?
Crown Prince: I like
be careful not to visit any embassy office, dude
I like too
Crown Prince Bin Salman and Donald Trump are kindred spirits. Not very bright and spoilt brats who think it is their right to do what they want to get what they want.
Nothing will ever be enough to fill that space where their compassion should reside. Someone says something you don't like, Bin Salman gets them cut up into tiny pieces. Trump takes them to court until their resources are depleted and what little they owned has been divided up into pieces.
@@SueMead and Biden bombs them
Urban planner likes and hates straight development: while it's efficient for high speed transit like BRT or HSR, it stifles diversity.
It was a brave and bold move by MBS to put children in charge of Saudi economic development plans. Sure the plan is foolish and doomed to failure. But it has created an endless supply of entertaining TH-cam videos. Thank you Prince MBS!
اعتقد انه قادر ان يجعل الخيال ومقاطع اليوتيوب حقيقة هذ الرجل لايمزح صدقني اني رأيت اشياء فالسعودية ينبغي عليها ان تكون بعد خمسين سنة من الآن عليك الترجمة ياصديقي 😂
"Hey, I just moved here, can you show me around?"
"A...round? You really are new here aren't ya?"
LoL
A line?
😂
Ok Man .. I'll show you along
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“Drawing a line in the sand” takes on a whole different meaning.
Nope, it's the same.
Corny dad jokes all over the comments lol
You won the internet for me today.
@@cheifburninggrass it's beautiful
Lol
My finger hurts from liking the comments. They are straight to the point
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I see what you did there nice
Bro i feel uuu
As a Cities Skyline enjoyer, a single major road line, no matter how large it is, is a horrible idea.
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It's going to be done with public transport not roads though?
@@septology Which can also fail, yes. This is a dumb idea regardless, it's built as a tourist attraction at the expense of the climate and poorer people.
Would make more sense with two parallel lines that can interface.
Ever heard a good idea of an arab? 🤣
Saudi Arabia: we're building a linear city.
Chile: that's cute!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
@@nskumar6394 did you check Chile in a map?
Linear country
Linear *country*
@@nskumar6394 man, it's just a joke... take it easy
I could see this turning into something like "The Platform" where luxury at one end and slums at the other, only getting what goods are left over.
I WAS THINKING THIS TOO OMG
When you live at the end of the line.
Which end is which? Just based on traditions of city construction I would guess the east end, away from the coast.
I wouldn't see that happening with this project in particular, but I could see that happening if the idea was replicated.
Well he said they will bild palaces at one end
It sounds really cool. But, why not a circle instead of a line? If something breaks in the line, it will hamper the whole throughput. E.g., a malfunctioning metro will block up the path. A circle would still allow you go either way, and you can also easily expand from inwards to outwards. I am curious to see how such bottlenecks would be addressed; I like futuristic cities.
It won’t be addressed. The fact of the matter is that humans always think we are smarter than we really are. Look at Chernobyl or Fukushima. Nuclear disasters because of unknown unknowns. This city will be the same. Organic cities barely function, why would a planned city be any better? It will be worse. Such a stupid idea. Rich people and their money. Never investing in the real future of a nation.
I think they want anyone driving from Egyp to think that SA is rly cool and rich by having the city go alongside the road for as along as possible. A circle would be harder to see whereas you literally see all of the city on a line. I’m assuming they also want to hide any poverty that might be seen on a normal road where you can look into the desert.
I think they want something similar to hyperloop for transportation and it works at maximum efficiency on a linear path.
@@josephp.1919 what would be the real future of the nation then?
Even a triangle around the gulf shore would seem more sensible.
This takes “don’t try to reinvent the wheel” to a whole new level.
*Prince rushes into the planning room* GUYS GUYS I GOT AN EVEN BETTER IDEA.
“What is it?”
The intersection 😱
This was basically Walt Disney's plan for Epcot, but it was a circle and much less dumb.
Shit 2 freaking trains and ya done
If you are suadi its game over for u
@@KingBobXVI roundabout?
This gives "downtown" a whole new meaning
@@fairweather1704 ok, buddy
I guess the terms "east town" and "west town" will be applicable here?
Man.. i would love to meet the guys who came up with this idea. Their sales team must be amazing. No person in their right mind would think this is a good idea but somehow they sold it.
It's easy to sell anything to the rich and dumb
ive been to Saudi.. they have more money than brains.. and everyone is in there position of power because of who their daddy is..
The Saudi royalty are literally burning their countries' money, this line Idea is really stupid.
@@justanothersomeone1 i agree with you but I also think theyre washing money
Why? I must not be in my right mind, but what better idea do you have?
(Or do you just think the cities we have are fine? If so, it would be interesting to know to what extent, or in what forms, if you find any of the ways we currently live to be necessary evils or acceptable solutions).
If you keep other buildings at enough distance, in a place like this everyone could for instance have a golf course nearby. (Nice cheap golf courses, even. Tarred "greens", and lots of bunkers. Make the game less boringly easy. :-) )
In October 2022, Shadli, Ibrahim, and Ataullah al-Huwaiti, of the Howeitat tribe, were sentenced to death when they refused to vacate their village as part of the NEOM megaproject.
Shadli al-Huwaiti was the brother of Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti, who was shot dead by security forces in April 2020 in his home in Al-Khariba, in the part of Tabuk province earmarked for NEOM, after he posted videos on social media opposing the displacement of local residents to make way for the project.
Saudi Arabia: Builds linear city...
Chile as a linear country: 👁️👄👁️
Japan, Taiwan, Nepal : Am I joke to you ?
Norway: *Heavy breathing*
@@sfhbgyfbyrahulranjan nepal is a landlocked country.
@@nischaymiglani2617 so...
It is type of linear settlement
Florida; I'm trying my best guys, can I join your club?
This feels like the plot to a crappy futuristic dystopian tv show: A city supposed to be a Utopia, the line, eventually falls into disparity with the Rich live lavishly near the coast in beautiful high rises and homes while the inland part of the line falls into disrepair and the lower you are in social class the farther in land you live.
The division will be below the line between the exploited working class, then inhabitants- the rich and middle classes and at the top the very rich and tourists. Absolutely terrifying!
Hmm I think the mountains will have better views though
The mountains will separate the City into two pieces
Have you been overdosing on snowpiercer
@@mrpanda6556 the city is already composed of city modules, its not like you will live in coast and work in the mountains, i mean I assume you can but I think you can't not if you understand, the whole idea is to make daily routines take a 5 minute walk, and 20 minutes to travel from end to end
We weren’t supposed to take RTGame this seriously!
Country Roads/take me home/to the place/I belong/West Virginia/Mountain mama/Take me home/Country Roads
Lmaooooo
The Crown Prince must've been watching RTGame for a long time lol
When are the asteroids coming?
RT?
Great cities have grown organically over hundreds of years, good luck Saudi Arabia.
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According to the report, the oil-rich kingdom will be the Middle East's richest economy in terms of GDP per capita by 2050, with Saudis earning USD 98,311 per annum on average by 2050.
Source: The Economic Times
@@Gurci28 And? Saudis are still humans. We don't live in such bottlenecked spaces.
Today is the day everybody in the comment section became a civil engineer.
🤣🤣🤣
that is the problem with this project: it looks like an amazing engeneering project but seems to have forgotten the social part of it.
😂
@@1individeo Even if they cramp the city close to each other you wont even know 95% of the people living in that city
😂🤣
My Cities Skyline city has finally become a reality.
Bruh
SAME!
Xd
Username checks out
Or terror you know.
I mean it is a skyLINE
Same
This feels all so familiar. Even the marketing style rings a bell. Like...a festival that was supposed to be Fyre.
Oh yeah you are right, that hugely success festival. Man I am pumped
Sounds to me like an easier way to keep control of an entire city. Where nobody can hide a d everyone is constantly being watched. Moreso than if it was a normal city. Reminds me of the fallout shelters in the game fallout, and how all of the shelters were abandoned and full of dead people, and stories of how it always turned into a fight for power and eventual massacres.
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Dam vault TEC company
YEP. That's the whole point.
U got it!!!! First they try demo cities like this,- then what?? why in Saudi??? Cause they got $$$$$!!!
Yeah all about control. This is about agenda 2030
"where is the next convenient store?"
"across the street"
me looking over the horizon.... : "ok"
Just down the road* is needed for the joke to work but yeah
I dont want to be that guy but across the street means he just needs to, you know, *cross* the street... i don't know which horizon are you talking about.
@@ikesworld4153 not sure if you watched the video though, the joke could have worked.
“Has Cities Skylines gone too far?”
No. It’s just a stealth teaser for a “Spec Ops: The Line” (2012) sequel.
BEST COMMENT EVER!
Now I really want to build one
ah yes, that tine when you build a city with only one road.
It reminds me of One Road City where a youtuber RT game built a huge city with only 1 long winding road. The best part was that there was absolutely no traffic problems but pretty much everything else was horrible. Emergency services would have to travel 100km just to turn around and return to the opposite side of the say hospital or fire station to deal and then repeat the same thing just to turn again
It was absolutely hilarious but to imagine such a situation IRL would be an absolute mess
I was hoping that the video is only 5 seconds saying "Because they can"
This 😂
Great video. I have watched a bunch of the official Neom videos and none that I have seen give a complete overview of the project like this video. Liked the music too. Great graphics, really help put the project in perspective.
"So where does your friend live?"
"Like straight that way but on the other side of the country."
under the ground!
Oh straight down the street?
No...like 50miles away
Take a right but not too far
The other side of the country is 1000 miles away not 100
@@abdullahasaad7367 a
I can't help but think that a circle would be more efficient
It is
Harder to draw to be fair
Wouldn't it be easier to extend a line though?
@@happysmash27 TBH, having multiple lines radiating from a central point in a linear fashion would be the most efficient
@@mudkip90000 or do both and make it a spiderweb
Saudi Arabia took a city skylines challenge and put it into real life
They’ve been watching too much biffa
Do you reckon they’re going use mods?
This city and country will be an archaeological site in a few decades when their oil reserves depletes. If they can't improve their literacy rate, their country will be obsolete.
@@caio5987 Yep. Next up is building Impossibly complex roundabouts at every corner of existence XD
How many journalists will be murdered in this city?
@@KA-vs7nl non, Because we don’t murder Journalists.
Awesome video, just a bit of a tip, when you start your video try not to start with “At the start of this year” because as we all know time goes on and we lose track of it. Try to say the date. Hopefully I don’t get backlash for this. But I love the videos and keep up the good work
Exactly. I just started watching this and had to stop and check the year it was posted when he said that. Its an amateur mistake but the quality of the channel is great
I like his Steve Jobs attitude when announcing the future of the country like it is an IPhone.
Yes mee too, it's easier to get his ideas across this way
He needed the turtle neck to really get me on board.
The iLine
I like how he treats women
@@Gr33kChief Oh yea? Tell me about it
“Mom can I go outside to play?”
“Yes honey. Just stay on our street”
Kid :- okay I ma go to thr other edge
There are no streets, did you watch the video?
@@vincentvaleur3573 first off it was a joke. Secondly are you serious? A city with no streets? How the hell would that work? Did you watch the video?
@@sumreensultana1860 the V O I D
@@vincentvaleur3573 did *YOU* watch the video? There are streets. For pedestrians.
Delivery in 2 days
"I can already see the Amazon delivery Van"
Did Jeff Bezoz pay you ?
Pretty sure the curvature of the earth only let's you see ~40km.
@@cuteerebos2155 No the van is on the other side of the road. It can only turn around at the end.
No cars in the line tho
@@DarkNexarius oh shit lmfao
I just have 1 suggestion for this plan
If they could add a parallel line
With a canal in between, starting from the sea and into the land
It will greatly help reduce the temperature of the infrastructure
Good idea
If there is no flow of water from the sea to some other place at the far end of the Line, the water will become stagnant and reach ambient temperature, growing algae and become nasty. Since the sea is at a lower elevation than the inland end of the Line, any water in the canal will have to be pumped uphill along the way. Pumping water uphill tends to be rather energy intensive and expensive. Kind of sounds like this canal will fit in just fine in this project...
The city will be like the Snowpiercer. The wealthiest will occupy the spaces closest to the ocean, while the neighborhoods get poorer as you move inland.
That's until a tailie revolution
That’s how most coastal cities work
Saudi Arabia's poverty is only 12%
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If any neighbourhoods remain... new world, new city, new people...
that actually sounds pretty plausible imo since there's literally something like that here
“This is a development that can be seen across the Arabian peninsula.”
*Yemen has entered the chat*
Lmfao
@@kakyoindonut3213 Well Syria and Palestine aren't in the peninsula tho
@@Ryan_kev03 the barbarian peninsula is my favourite peninsula
We got bombed in dharan
@Halo 2 Anniversary r u in dh camp too?
I like the project, but it seems like they chose a line simply for publicity. A line seems incredibly inconvenient for anyone who isn't a millionaire. One logistical failure could entirely immobilize the whole city.
Cities are all about mobility, the easiest shape a city can take to srve the purpose of mobility is a straight line, more convenient and cheaper to build, that doesn't mean everything in the city is in a linear shape, each city module will have its own design and architecture.
@@fawazaljohani8447 no it isn’t. The optimum shape a city could take for a human is a circle, that way you optimise for the shortest distance between any two parts of it, so you will be able to walk or cycle there. The optimum shape a city could take for a transit system is a doughnut, because that way you optimise for the quickest journey time between any two points on a fixed route. A line is….a weird way to do it.
@@cjeam9199 The line makes sence for hyperloop or other forms of high speed public trafic. So you can have one expencive vertical high speed axis and then walk the way to your appartment.
@@langohr9613ify but this is only because you created this Problem and now need to go against your own created Problem with hyperloops
You are not allowed or either cant live there if you cant pay for it anyways. Why bother
I am soo proud to be part of this project 😊
Can't wait for Mission Impossible 14, where Tom Cruise sprints across The Line
The MI14 story will be a linear one. No plot twists.
@@A0A4ful Mission Impossible 14: Mission Possible
No body double! Tommy himself running for 2 hours nonstop!
@@A0A4ful That, in itself, is a plot twist.
Now, this is a good fast and furious set. Drag race in The Line.
the prince really just playing on sandbox mode building whatever he wants
black sus.. get the chainsaw.
Well, they need to diverse their income before the world runs out of oil and gas, tourism is going to help the economy
@@Brmeel Saudis barely had tough time economically in history as far as I know. So I believe they will be able to come with something before importance of oil goes away.
& when the oil runs out they bouta be playing in hardcode mode
@Praveen Sampath 😂
They are designing a city around high speed transit.
One high speed subway that touches every part of the city and everyone lives within walking distance of the stations.
Very similar to a skyscraper with its central elevator shaft, in fact you could view this as a massive skyscraper laid on its side.
I could see this working.
But I suspect Saudi Arabia is actually building a new capital city , one thats as far from Iran (and its ballistic missile program) as possible.
A linear city reduces the effectiveness of a 20 kiloton blast by about a factor of 4 (you destroy 4 city blocks instead of 16)
The fact that most of the city is underground also creates shelters that allow people fairly close to the blast to survive the explosion and the fall out and because the city is so spread out , over 95% of the city would survive a "Hiroshima" sized bomb undamaged.
The causeway to Egypt provides a short route for survivors to escape and allows rapid deployment of relief supplies.
This is the kind of city you build when you want to minimize casualties from a nuclear strike.
Number one comment
Damn
Mr Bonesaw can run, but he can’t hide. He forget’s God can easily destroy Mr Bonesaw’s fantasy underground city in a single blow with an earthquake. What a sight it will be to behold!
Just playing along: carpet bombing it becomes super easy though.
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The word "is" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the title.
"mom, im going to a friend house"
"okay, where is it?"
"its only 50km down the road"
"alright be back before dinner"
Hahaha, not funny
Should i laugh?
It's funny stfu
@@nevarethwanderer yes
Not. Fucking. FUNNY.
"I live on the other side of the town" will have an entirely new meaning.
if it's north to south it's just a street away, if it's west to east it's half a country
Which is why the public transport system can take you from one end to the other in 20 minutes.
Not really as it should take 20mn to go from one side to the other side .
@@sau1748 20 minutes is too much in my standards
@@iamsheel Which is why the city was specifically designed so that everything you need is within a 5 minute walk, whether it's work, market, etc. You won't need to go from one side of the city to the other every day, and plus, that 20 minutes only applies if you're living at the very far end, if you live in the middle, that's a 10 minute journey till the very end.
“Snowpiercer: Desert Edition”
"170 kilometres long"
Sandpiercer
Ok mr funny
THE NETFLIX SHOW OR THE MOVIE???????
if you say the netflix show imma flip out
These buildings that sudia Arabia are building are what I would call a fancy prison. Maybe it might be necessary to live like this in the future. I love being near the earth.
Welcome to the city where no one ever gets lost. No directions needed just tell them when to stop.
@@fairweather1704 pakof bruh
X,D
🤣
Bold of you to assume everyone knows left from right
This is dumbest idea ever!! Thanks MBS..
all cities so far: 2D
futurists: we need 3D cities!
the saudi: 1D, take it or leave it
Lol
@F 1 An underground is hardly new.
@@lacdirk Yeah not buying it, this shit is new, there's no city in the world that has a double-layered underground city across 170 km. Even cyberpunk doesn't have that feature.
Wont the desert just blow over and cover it? Dumb idea
@@vorisodan4627 maybe they meant underground as in parking lots, basements etc. Not the entire city
News paper titles be like: *HAS SAUDI CROSSED THE LINE?*
Wow!!! One of the best-edited videos I have ever seen. I love how you use the terrain transitions with the 3D maps. What programs do you use to make the effects at minute 10:07 when you start talking about Brasilia? I love how you are highlighting the different areas you are talking about and I would like to use that effect in a project.
Thanks for your time.
Saudi Arabia: "We have drawn a LINE in the sand."
You'll hear a lot of "make a u-turn" from your gps.
No cars in The Line.
take the next u-turn 50 kilometres away
You have reached your destination, it is 30 miles ahead on your right
No cars so jaywalking is allowed I guess 🤣
They now build skyscrapers, but just horizontally
so would you call them "landscrapers" ?
Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him said ""The day of judgement will not come until the Arabian Peninsula turns into green meadows and rivers and until the iron will speaks ( phones and robots )and until The convergence of markets and time. And At the end of time, the number of women increases, the number of men decreases, and the men will be satisfied with the men and the women will be satisfied the women
@@polkolkj4788 This is lies from hadith, nothing as such exists in the QURAN or the BIBLE the REAL SCRIPTURES OF GOD.
@@polkolkj4788 men being satisfied with men and women and all this has already existed before READ THE QURAN it is MENTIONING the people of LOT, these hadiths don't inform us of anything they are just made up lies to glorify a made up fictional character called 'muhammad' who has no power, all power is only with ALLAH. GOD. THE LORD OF HOSTS. THE GOD OF THE QURAN AND THE BIBLE!!
I'm very curious to see if this just results in suburbia spreading out from a failed municipal "line" project, like I've seen in many other attempts at urban planning.
Recession: I guess you wondered where Ive been
You have clearly been in a deep, dark hole if you don't know what this is really about. It has nothing to do with recession. It's much, much worse than that. :-)
When you just wants your gold plated bugatti chiron to fly in a straight line
did you watch the video?
@@mac2857 yes. To make a straight city first you need a straight road, a straight highway. It's going to be a traffic nightmare if there are intersections within 1kilometers
There won't be roads. No cars.
@F. A. For some reason I can't picture many people (especially foreign investors and residents) walking or riding bikes in 30c+ heat for 50% of the year. Maybe it's just me :))
@@willpeden6055 Until know there were many planed cities especially in autocracies the government hoped to become the worlds capital but none of them did. Most of them are build for at least a million but are just inhabitated by a few thousand. I think thats also how the line will end.
"How to burn $1 Trillion with these quick and easy steps"
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Yup and earn maybe 3x more than that in a year
@@maryamalgaw2407 uhm, no
@@matteorovetto1568 BABAHAHAAHA Okay look back at this video and look at ur comment (: in ten years from now I would say and am From The uae and I believe in Saudis because they have worked with a lot of people in uae and other country just for this project ❤️🇸🇦🇦🇪
@@maryamalgaw2407 the entire middle east runs on oil/gas money. The second it runs out, noone is going to visit some skyscrapers in the desert anymore.
All the major nations are wealthy, because of some sustainable not easily transfarable capability, the middle east has nothing of the likes.
And tourism isn´t sustainable ask Greece or Spain.
The architect hasn't finished first chapter:
Chapter one: straight line.
Chapter two:.... enough education, come build a city.
Nice joke but if the first chapter is a straight line and they are building a straight line, wouldnt they have finished chapter 1?
@@medicamedico4335 logic broooo👏👏
only someone who has lived here gets the profound truth of what you say.
@@medicamedico4335 he read enough for C+ not all the chapter.
Given the scarcity of land and lack of natural sunlight it makes total sense to build it underground in a straight line
Why not join the two ends of ‘The Line’ together? Creating a giant circle?
That way no residents will live at the end of the line and trains can go in a continuous loop.
Crossing the line will become a great problem and it end up as a huge jail😂
That would literally waste all the space inside the circle's radius for no reason as residents in the city wouldn't be allowed to drive inside.
I think youre referring to a "circle"
@@farajshaikh5100 Unlike the space beside the line? It's desert anyway. If you really want to use it, use it for storage and industry connected through the 3th lower layer.
A perfect circle would be a mess. How about something Superspeedway-shaped?
I feel like a large spoked wheel with a smaller inner circle would be far more efficient than a single line. A line has the inherent weakness that a single break in the line (damage/maintenance) cuts the city in half.
that is literally just a normal city
It's a star grid
@@green5260 it’s almost like normal cities are pretty good and just need tweaking and testing, not a 100 mile desert city 😂
@@edwardhellings9516 if people like you were in charge we'd still be living in the days of travelling 100 mi just to get some milk and eggs because you live in 200 man villages, cities that we know them at first were large projects that people thought were going to fail and look at them now, we all take them for granted. innovation is not necessarily bad, just your crappy mindset is
@@bonkyo That's not how it works. People innovate because of necessity, not because "why not?". Building a city in a line is extremely inefficient and would not only make any damage to one part of the transport system prevent any sort of movement at all but also the city would be impossible to live in normally. Walking or biking long distances would be a nightmare. This is not only unnecessary, it's fucking stupid.
Imagine missing your stop like “aw now I gotta drive ten miles to make a u turn”
There aint no car 🤦♂️
Only that those 10 miles, you'll reach them in 5 minutes at most in this new futuristic city
More like you fall asleep on the train and end up 150 miles from your destination.
@@JohnFoley1701 Worst case scenario, you just lost 20 mins.
@@azzamalhanif9197 wdym🤔
Really good you brought up Jamal Khashoggi
“Literally everyone in that town”
*walking 7 days to friends house to play tekken*
Hiii
@@crabrobot Trolling for the boys? It's an ancient pastime. You eventually need to develop some conversational skills.
tekken!!
"which house you live in?"
"48th"
"Which road"
"The only road"
"What"
"What"
😂
If it’s an entire city your house number will look like your phone number.
@@Aron-ru5zk
it’s meant to be many cities in the line, not just one, and the cities will be circular in shape.
That Palm island project really got him thinking.
finally a city you can snort
These guys have been playing too much cities skylines
Ironically I was thinking; "Hmm, I should try this in cities skylines".
"Cities SkyLINEs"
@@ViolentMLG I kind of want to see this now lol
@@ViolentMLG Doing the same!! Traffic will be a nightmare!]
@@davidcoylejr.3967public mass transport
People in the 70s: The city of the future is unimaginable!
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There was EPCOT which was a interesting future city idea. Never panned out. Most of these sorts of projects do not as it seems humans like some planning and some organic development. Unsure if the Line is the right concept, but will be cool the watch it develop.
He took the idea from a video game
Saudis: We want our city to be pedestrian-friendly.
Saudis: lol let’s build a 170km line
For daily needs it gonna be 5 minutes away from you max, to get from one end of the city to the other will take you 20 minutes max, because of the high speed underground trains
@@talalalqahtani6756 yeah but why a line, why not a spiral, or a circle or anything, its not like a metro is a new idea.
@@AricGardnerMontreal I guess they wanted to remove intersection
@@AricGardnerMontreal By keeping it straight they can drastically increase the speed. Imagine having 3 parallel lines, one stopping on every station, one on every 4th, and one on every 10th, or something like that. If I want to get to a station far away I'll just take the train that stops at every station and jump off on the next station where the line that stops on every 10th station is and take that to where I'm close to my destination and then jumps back onto the one where they stop on every station. That way I can do inter-city travel at mag train speeds. Everything I'll need in my everyday life I could find within my area and can walk to. I'll only really need to take the train if I'm going to the hospital or something like that.
@@AricGardnerMontreal
If they made a spiral youd say "why a spiral"
If they made a normal looking city youd say "looks boring‚ wheres the innovation?"
There are architects who design this stuff.
I dont think theyre talking out of their ass
"a civilisational revolution that puts humans first."
" In October 2022, Shadli, Ibrahim, and Ataullah al-Huwaiti, of the Howeitat tribe, were sentenced to death when they refused to vacate their village as part of the NEOM megaproject. Shadli al-Huwaiti was the brother of Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti, who was shot dead by security forces in April 2020."
Humans first, indeed.
The three layer infrastructure idea is interesting but i have to wonder about a city that so completely ignores the geography of its location. I have a feeling that they’ll start it, run into massive budget concerns and get bored with it and move on to the next big project like was done in Dubai with Palm Jumeirah and The World.
Walt Disney already tried to build that exact design at his EPCOT. It's a thing that men with too much authority keep trying since we all despise the constant danger, pollution, noise, and insane infrastructure demands of personal motor vehicles. It's almost literally putting a rug over the problem rather than solving it.
That's really not comparable. Dubai finished those projects; they're just having trouble getting getting anyone to develop the land.
Jeddah Tower and King Abdullah Economic City, both of which were to happen in Saudi Arabia, are better indicators of what you're saying (the government trying, incurring some unexpected costs, getting bored with it and slowly talking about it less and less until people forget)
@Marc T not enough cow bells
I don't understand why future cities always bury the transport layers underground. Cities like London or NYC build subways because there was NO WHERE ELSE to build them. If you're building a city from scratch, put the trains on the ground and the city on top. Its just common sense. Building upwards is cheap, thats why every major city has sky scrapers and only wealthy ones have underground train networks.
It looks like a giant sandpit from above, I seriously doubt building anything underground is a practical idea unless for engineering reasons they would be required to dig it out anyway.
@@SineN0mine3 In the desert, building sideways is much much cheaper than high. Skyscrapers are extremely expensive (because they are complex; complexity costs money).
Who lives in skyscrapers? The rich, and offices are placed there.
Very difficult for Fast and furious team to escape cops, JUST one hell straight road..😂
I’m not that guy who ruin the jokes, but there will not be roads 😂, it’s all about NATURE.
FLAVIO JOSEPHUS wrote in History of the Hebrews: The Sinai is located BETWEEN Arabia and Egypt. On the map of the region, this reference is precisely the Sinai Peninsula. On the other hand, the Koran itself, a Muslim holy book records that Mount Sinai is located in the Sinai Peninsula, and not in the territory of Saudi Arabia, a fact that the Saudi Arabian government agrees with.
James K. Hoffmeier, in his book “ANCIENT ISRAEL IN SINAI” studied the subject and wrote that the sinai could never be located in Saudi Arabia, the distance does not fit in the narrative of the Exodus.
Dr. Rodrigo Silva, commented on the Sinai of Arabia as the Exodus that did not happen.
Pilgrim Egeria, in her documentary Pilgrimage to the Holy Land from the 4th century, where she also traveled to the Mount Sinai located on the Sinai Peninsula and wrote in rich detail of the evidence still visible at that time. These places, which will soon be shown in my last work on this subject, where I will talk about what it was, and how they are today.
Paul in Galatians 4, he talks about the Sinai in Arabia, and the Apostle is correct, because he was referring to what Josephus was also referring to, Arabia Petrea, which extended throughout the Sinai Peninsula to a small part of Arabia, Moab and Edom. According to Manu M. Hubner, a post-graduated in literature, language and Jewish culture, there are ancient writings where the name Arabia was also used to refer to the Sinai Peninsula until the fourth century as he brilliantly wrote in his book called the route of the Exodus.
This video was created for those who doesn’t know about history and don't know this subject. There are many mistakes, even lies, in this video. Flavio Josephus did NOT imply that Mount Sinai is located in Saudi Arabia, quite the contrary, he wrote that "MOUNT SINAI IS LOCATED BETWEEN ARABIA AND EGYPT." Check a map to see what appears "between" EGYPT AND ARABIA!
Nuweiba beach did not exist 3000 years ago as it exists today, it was formed by sediments brought by powerful torrents over the centuries that created and expanded what is known as Nuweiba's long beach.
In Serabite, on the Sinai Peninsula, on Mount Karkom, north of Eilat, there are the same drawings shown in this video, now what?
Near Mount Sinai on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt there are also drawings of the Menorah, which will be shown shortly. This interview video is a fake to say the least.
*The reason is religious, in the Muslim holy book it is written that Mount Sinai is on the Sinai Peninsula. The Saudis know this, which is why the Saudi Arabia government has never made any markings on their land claiming that Mount Sinai is on Saudi Arabia territory. Their holy book forbids it.
These facts destroy the very idea that Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia.
SUCOTH, ETAN, PI-HAIROTH, MIGDOL - These are described as places where the Hebrews went before crossing the Red Sea and in fact it HAS ALREADY been duly located in Egypt with robust archaeological evidence, but unfortunately, it has hardly been made public since their discovery. Also we already know the current names of these places nowadays, and I will soon show it in my last documentary regarding the false Mount Sinai of Saudi Arabia.
The location of these sites in Egypt, which are studied since 1940, definitely puts an end with the remote possibility of the Mount Sinai being in Saudi Arabia. RONALD WYATT, unfortunately without any respectable studies placed these places: SUCOTH, ETAN, PI-HAIROTH and MIGDOL, near Nuweiba beach, which is about 450 kilometers or 260 miles from Ramses. Any average Bible student knows that this distance does not fit the description of the Exodus, and unfortunately, Ryan Mauro without any respectable study became a promoter of RONALD WYATT's thesis.
I would like to read some reputable archaeological and historical research paper on the topic that Ryan Mauro has written. So far, what I've seen from Ryan is a speculative point of view or baseless opinion that is based solely and exclusively on intuition. What he presents is lacking in academic, archeological, historical and scientific evidence. It does not correspond to reality, it is simply a wild guess. Ryan's quotes from Flavio Josephus are out of context and in no way, shape or form in his work Josephus imply that the Egyptian siege of the Hebrews was on the beach at Nuweiba in the Gulf of Aqaba. I challenge Ryan Mauro to a debate on the topic.
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Isn't that how it started drag racing 🤔lmao
Drag race
Wouldn’t a circle makes more sense? In fact, a coil 100km long would have the same effect
People realised that thousands of years ago
Practically, a line is more easy than circle , don’t forgot it will be a street there not juste Trees , which Idea is better circle or line ?
@@discovertn3286 circle, obviously
wow i just realized that you are smarter then the government of this country
Check Garden Cities design (about a century or even more old). These are circle cities that provide people with easy access to gardens, farms , nature surrounding the city. And, what's more important , they are designed to be not too huge, around 30-40 000 residents, to make them comfortable for humans.
I can imagine millions of birds making a colony on the roof top of this city and base jumping would be very popular.
if you ever get lost in city, just remember
that
y = mx + c
The formula for this city is literally just y = 0
*b
@@lemonade4181 no that’s slope intercept form y=Mx+c is the equation for a straight line. The formulas are very similar though
@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 no it's not, that would mean this city is 1d, of course it will have some width too.
You don't need a slope function for a linear street. ;)
Also, y=mx + c is often used in accounting. y=mx+b is the algebraic slope intercept form.
When the city designer totally forgot to do the job and in last minute just draw a line and presented the concept.
Ah yes, the old "let's build a perfectly designed utopian city with underground shops and transportation, and a crazy new layout." These projects are always announced with great fanfare, then slowly have ideas crossed out as the developer realizes how insanely expensive it all will be. Eventually, either the whole project is abandoned, or it ends up being half-finished, empty, and far removed from the grand spectacle it was designed as.
@Hyperskreem 82 so you think spending billions on a project that will ultimately fail would have NO effect on their economy and politics?!
yes they are rich and could afford it. but they still have to think before they act. Saudi Arabia is not immune to the global economy and its movement.
in fact the main reason to make this city is to turn profit from it, not to waste billions for virtually nothing.
and i agree, this design screams failure.
@@sam-psonsmith9951 and you’re saying that based on what?
@@alking_am842 well pretty much the same reasons the original comment already suggested. There are many comments here on this video that explain to you why a layer system like that is a pitfall of problems waiting to happen.
But in short basically.
If transport in the third layer comes to a halt, this city is doomed and impossible to sustain even just for 3 weeks.
A circle design could remedy some of those issues. but you still have the problem with the three layers.
One little earthquake (or anything else that prevents transport) and every one in this city is fucked. Or do you want to walk 20miles to buy groceries.
Also there is a reason why humans have come to do certain things a certain way.
By failing, and learning from mistakes.
Any new innovation holds new problems.
I assure you, for every single problem we can think of, there are 10 more that we didn't even consider yet. because in the history of humanity a city like that has not existed. which means it is uncharted territory.
Another reason no one has every done that, is not the lack of ability, but rather a lack of interest. I promise you, he is not the first person to suggest a genius idea like that.
And usually it is a team of experts that will then tell the Dictator/Money Bag, that it is a really bad idea.
Remember when India started making artificial islands and thought it was an amazing idea? Well, turns out it wasn't.
Because they ran into issues and problems they didn't see coming.
This Line City project is MUCH more daring and almost insane compared to their idea with the islands.
@@alking_am842 You can actually study something like that (City Planing)
It is a subject people have been researching for hundreds if not thousands of years.
In those classes students often times have to design their own perfect city.
Many innovative ideas have come from that.
And i promise you, many students have suggested a linear city before. And every one of those got a lengthy explanation from their teacher, as to why that is a dumb idea and would only work in theory never in real life.
The problem is, there are most likely not many people in Saudi Arabia that would dare to tell him that his idea is stupid. And basically what a first semester student would come up with.
EDIT: Which is one of the problems when one individual has so much power and influence that they can ignore experts and listen to those that kiss their ass.
@@sam-psonsmith9951 has anyone ever tried to build such cities in the modern world? I guarantee you the video didn’t cover the whole thing so, have you read the whole idea? have you studied his idea not those 1st semester students ideas. I agree innovation and creativity requires certain amount of risks, you must have the balls to change what ppl always think right. At the end the line is only one city inside neom.
This suppose to be in case in large glass reflective mirrors. Meanwhile the birds outside will be 👁👄👁
i like the fact you did not only focus on infrastructure, which is why most of people came to your video, but you explained how its being achieved and the controversy around it. very good job
To be fair it would make building high speed metro incredibly easy this way, I would worry that the city would just end up empty though.
The Saudis would just move people there to make it popular
@@Owl566 I mean they already give free housing to newly married spouts, I wouldn't be shocked if they do that.
don’t worry about it , I am sure it will be very full of people
That's usually how rich kid projects turn out. There are so many failed examples, it's strange that anyone would think this is a good idea. The national resources are essentially being used as a toy by the monarch.
@@davidk7529 This project is supposed to connect Egypt and Saudi Arabia, bringing in tons of tourism and money. I'm no expert, but I think it sounds like a good idea.
This kind of videos makes me realize how massive our world is and that there's so many cultures and places to know. Thanks for this amazing report! Shoutout from a brazilian who doesn't know Brasília 😂
The only thing you will regret that you did not know
Is Quran
Please Read Quran before being in grave
May God guide you 🌹❤️
Read it before it is too late
You will not back to life to take this opportunity
@@xmuhmd dude wtf
@@xmuhmd stfu fanatic
@@xmuhmd bruh, that's not how you guide someone to Islam🤦🏻♂️. I'm Muslim myself, but this is just embarrassing...
😂😂 Same with me I am from Saudi Arabia and this is the first time I’ve heard about “the line” 😂😂🙈🙈😬
“Mom, what’s outside the walls?”
تعليق رائع 😂 الجواب ولدي يوجد مطار يمكنك الطيران لترى 🎉
Common Saudis will not live here. This is for the rich. Purely a tourist playground.
It's a city designed to minimize casualties from a nuclear strike.
Its as far from Iran as they can get
Lots of underground shelter
The city is spread out far enough that there's no large "down town" region to strike.
A causeway for residents to travel easily to a friendly country.
A 25 kiloton bomb ( the kind that Iran could develop ) would take out less than 1% of the 100 mile long city.
A 1 megaton hydrogen bomb would destroy 4% of it.
So roughly 96% of the population would survive the blast from a hydrogen bomb and have immediate access to fall out shelters.
Its a city designed to keep the ruling class alive during a war with Iran.
@@glennchartrand5411 another perspective - or just have a lot of missiles bc the radial range needed isn’t much. I’m sure the stock for smaller missiles is night and day compared to those you mentioned.
Smart. It wil being in tons of money.
Just like dubai
Indeed
They are literally burying all the undesirables underground. Its like something out of the film Metropolis. They will compromise in the end with a few streets on the surface and then after that the line is all over. Brasilia all over again.
Who are the undesirables?
Also Brasilia isnt really as bad as many say‚ the city has been successful in its goal to be a capital‚ and it's been experiencing a lot of growth in the past decades
@@kp5602 Brazilia is successful at most things except urban planning. as the video mentioned it sprawls all over with no direction and the intended part is also expensive. Same in NY, with manhattan being expensive AF and sprawl all over. The same will be seen here. As the population grows it will become a circle, with the original line being expensive and the rest being slums. It always happens because cities are shaped as a circle for a reason
@@stefanoraffo5096
This is extremely anecdotal and superstitious.
I doubt the entire project consists of one line‚ as mentioned before this is only the first phase‚ the city is laid over hundreds of square kilometers and we can definetely expect more projects and planning for the other areas aswell.
Dont apply urban planning mistakes to a project still not fully realized
@@kp5602 yeah, i'm brazilian and live in São Paulo, and I can say Brasília is a cool City, but everything is far and you have to own a car
@@kp5602 The service sector. The dirty servants. The elites live up top and the laborers at least work if not live below. Just watch it happen. There will be a big indigent population that just exists down there. Saudi wont care they want it to happen. This is one of the many human rights abuses that happen in the world, this concept will just take it to a new level. They are opening this area to a Corporate form of law. That is just different from Saudi law, not better.
I’m from Tabuk region which includes NEOM with two other giga projects (Amaala and The Red Sea Development company) ..I really am impressed by the amount of construction here. I’ve never seen something like this in my whole life. It’s not only NEOM that’s being built there. It’s like building a whole country from scratch.. There are 3 international airports under construction there right now..
Three airports.... sounds like they're really big on the whole "sustainability" thing.
@@lmlmd2714 All terminals will run completely with renewable energy and are built and designed with the best standards. Take a look at TRSDC airport and AMAALA’s airport. Plus, Saudi is now going with green Hydrogen and with it airplanes will have zero-emission.
@bãßßêt Everything started but it’s mainly now with infrastructure.
@@netizencapet focus on yourself and your country, don't worry about us and our opinions.
@@netizencapet lol a new hater
As other people have pointed out, there's just so many obvious problems with the Line. It's just plain harder to locate housing efficiently next to amenities when you're operating on one rather than two dimensions. This is especially egregious considering they have some of the most open space available of any region on the planet. Also, it's a whole line of choke points. If there's an accident, especially in the transit system, you can't route around it near as easily, so it cuts off all of the line past that point. The point isn't to actually make it, or make it good for people of course. It's to generate international investment hype.