Exactly. It sounds like a pie in the sky idea. However, if you throw enough money at something, eventually you’ll get something done. But whether that’s actually economically viable, or implemented well is a totally different story. Years ago my friend rented a presidential suite in Sydney. It looked amazing from outside. A big open plan apartment on the top floor! But inside, if you looked closely you could see that the floors were slightly lopsided, the electrical circuit was failing in some areas, the walls were warped, the tiles were cracked and misaligned, and plumbing was terrible. You can’t fake good workmanship. You can only hope to fool people for long enough to get paid. My friend moved out after a few months.
I really struggle to imagine any of these projects either getting finished, or if they somehow do, managing to stay afloat. Dubai has already proved time and time again that a lot of these huge scale projects just aren't attractive to outside investors/residents, especially in these climates.
Dude Dubai has a massive restate industry and has literal millions of people living in it. Dubai is a massive success. Large scale projects can work if done properly. Not to say the idiotic The Line will work though.
Here is my prediction. They will complete about 20% of its full length before realizing that the initial vision has to be scaled down tremendously due to the sheer amount of cost and time it will take
I want i finished full size, so it became money sink for Saudi, imagine how much money needed for maintenance, i love watch rich people loosing money for their stupidity
I think this will be finished. I believe there is a reason this is spoken about the World Economic Forum along side 15 minute cities being tested in roam. This will be used to solve climate change by sticking the poor in a prison and the rich having the word for themselves.
Great man made structures might be stupid in the short term, but remembered in the long term. I'm sure the general population of historical Egypt didn't agree with the immense effort of the pyramids. But they are iconic today, even after the fall of the egyption empire thousands of years before.
@@rihasanatrofolo2472 Yes, but is that worth it? The inhumane amount of sacrifice necessary to build these structures and for what? A legacy to be remembered? A landmark for future generations to marvel at?
@@99vongola99 Sure, who cares. None of us will be around the next houndres years anyways. I agree that right now, the ethics and morals of it does matter. But thousands of years into the future, no one will care. The pyramids is probably the most diabolical use of slavery in human history but we still call it one of the seven wonders today.
"The vision is that everything is within walking distance." flash forward to "The number of subway stops has been reduced from 48 to 9". So basically, you have to walk 8.5km one way to get to a location in between stops now. This level of city planning at this early stage should paint a pretty clear picture for the urban hell that is to come.
It's very unlikely building another 31 stops is too expensive when they are still planning to build 150km of building. If I had to guess, it's just straight-up scope creep, as the subway will have to be one of the first things laid out, so it's one of the first things being addressed. That said, if this is happening with some of the first elements of the build, just wait until they start construction. 150km reduced to 100km reduced to 50km reduced to an abandoned project? Who knows.@@nohlanfisherman5185
@@liberallarry847 I think there's meant to be no roads except for maybe maintenance access, as it's meant to be a people-first, walkable city. Can't be having car exhaust pumping in an enclosed space.
Yup I agree!!! Like I said in an earlier comment, the plan sounds good on paper but in reality it just won't work!🤷🏾♂️ it's good to have big goals don't get me wrong, but some things just aren't possible...
Yeah. Having a so-called "walkable city" (now only) 120 km long with only 9 stations? Doesnt bode well at all. Folks dont walk - or carry their furniture/luggage/groceries - 6 km´s one way. Good public transportation tries have stations within 0.5 km of population centers to be useful, less preferred. Even 43 was too few for that, 9 is ridiculous. This sounded like a pipe dream from the first animation - the more is revealed and the more we see of the progress, the more it sounds like a useless, nay stupid money pit. Ski resort in one of the hottest places on earth 🙄, desalinaton for 3-5 million people. They will probably forget basic plumbing too, like Burj Califa.
All these projects are just madness madness madness... imagine what amazing and ACTUALLY sustainable things could be done with all that money, effort and workpower
but that would require building places people actually want to live in, and that's just now what these are for. they're just stupidly envisioned ideas by wealthy people who just wanna throw money at something so that other wealthy people will throw even more money at it. just look at NYC and its billionaire skyscrapers. they're all just investments. nothing needs to work as they say it will. it just needs to be flashy.
Right? Imagine all the environmental projects they could create, or all that money going into parts of healthcare or science. But nah fuck it let's build some giant city for neoliberal post-capitalist corporate greed profit.
Minimalist plan (*just a thought exercise): 1. Build 1km (length) of The Line’s towers/structures at each of the 9 transit stops, but with just 1 tower & not 2. Substitute the second southernmost tower with a 100m tall x 1km length solar energy collector panel. This preserves the middle area as seen in the artists conceptions. 2. Skip Trojena: ski areas with borderline freezing temperatures just don’t work. Just ask any of the USA’s southernmost ski areas about their struggles in the warm years. 3. Sindalah and Hidden Marina are most likely to be the success stories. The Line might then work as a suburb and transit system for them.
lol building the line in sections seems entirely too reasonable. Maybe when you have god level cash flow you don't even consider anything less than what you want
Are they ready for when the towers fall in the day of the Lord throughout the whole earth. [Isa 30:25-26 KJV] 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. I'm looking forward to the new city that will be 1500 miles high on the new earth in the new heaven full of people that love each other and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Will you be there? [Rev 21:1-2 KJV] 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Continue reading Revelation 21 for details.
I thought this was already debunked. The buildup of Sand alone would render it unusuable, not to mention massive heat. Just because it's a big project doesn't mean it can't fail. Think of the Hyperloop, solar powered roadways and the entire EV market. Pretty much anything invented by Elon Musk is doomed to fail.
It has lasted for 2 years. But that's because they are rich enough to keep a lie for quite some time. But it won't be what people are dreaming it to be.
We've had the ability to make cities in straight lines from the very beginning, and didn't for good reasons. It's artificially crowded and limits mobility--which are enough issues already, without even needing to think up minor disasters.
The idea of the suburb is supposed to put what you need as close as possible, grocery store, school, shopping district etc, then the same old scenery gets boring. The simple fact we have a curious brain makes the 'walkable city' unappealing.
My favourite part is how they are building AWAY from the water, 150km into a stretch of empty, sun scorched desert when they could have easily built the entire city around the water... you know, where people typically want to live.
@@rowanmelton7643 Last time I checked Europeans still use vehicles. But if you are referring to Copenhagen for it's bicycle culture, the city is also densely populated over a tiny area, while the average American urban city is spread out over 10x the area or more.
I'm no expert but I just want to see how these projects actually look if they're ever finished, compared to the renders. The renders all look insane and futuristic but I imagine it just isn't practical and engineers will force it to become far more blocky, boring and dystopian looking. In particular trojena, the bit cut out of the mountain.
Yeah just look at all those islands made of concrete and sand that never completed. Upside is that in the future people will have great spooky exploration locations to discover
My only complaint is that using a straight line maximizes travel time. There's a reason why most cities are vaguely circle-like. Construction will cease somewhere around the time when they discover that the there's no reason to build the widget factory 500 miles west when you can just build it to the left a bit.
Actually it minimises travel time. Straight lines are the shortest distance between two points and this city will have state of the art underground transport. Edit: OK they scaled down the underground transport a bit, but it should still be very fast
It’s interesting that “The Line” will essentially be a 15 minute city and my guess it will be inhabited by the lower classes while Trojans, Sindalah and Oxagon are luxury destinations for the very, very wealthy. Also, The Line is being sold as a climate friendly space while the other spots are full of airports and marinas for mega yachts.
The Line is literally the 15-minutes conspiracy given life. The feverdream of a tyrant. The other projects aren't much better. All of them are built to make them easy to keep under control.
Be interesting to see how sandstorms interact with this structure; seems perfectly designed to create a 150km long dune if they don't keep clearing it away. Locating small houses or even tall towers in a windy dusty environment is one thing, but locating a 150km long 500m tall _baffle_ there is quite another...
even if it is finished and even if it is amazing, it wont take long for the shiny new to be come tired and shabby. this happens to most things once the novelty has worn off.
I dont understand these comments, is him talking about it in a bad way gonna change anything? Like it changed when they got mad about the sand island? At this point just be happy and excited about how cool a construction like this would look and how big of an achievement it would be, cuz the only way for them to stop is if they dont have enough funds 😂
One thing I can say pretty confidently is these futuristic type of mega builds generally don't turnout to be how they invisioned them. I think it's a cool idea but is very impractical to build such a large structure. Not to mention they have several projects going on at once. Let's just take a look at the Abu Dhabi islands project that still to this day isn't complete. Even with a large portion of it done, it doesn't generate the money they thought it would. I cannot imagine anyone really wanting to live inside a wall that stretches for miles upon miles. Such a thing continues to build on an ever growing dystopian society. That's pretty much how these things go, royalty wants something done, so they put billions of dollars into it. Then it's either never completed or started. Doesn't really benefit the areas population. In fact it makes it harder to live in the area. Like the guy said, the carbon footprint is disgustingly massive! Personally I think not telling royalty no, often results in a bad ending. The reality of it is no matter what happens we don't live in a movie. There isn't going to be this perfect utopian society! That is the main reason I think this is a bad idea!
Nobody wants to live in Saudi Arabia period, it’s a hot desert with a dictatorship government that has a history of gross violations of human rights. Khashoggi is one of the cases that comes to mind in particular.
the entire prospect of royalty is the problem here. in this day and age there should not be families lourding over everyone else because they are the richest its just backwards as fuck. but then again thats saudi arabia in a nutshell. backwards ass people believeing in nonsensical fairytales about a pedophile...
i would agree but bugs exist. I would be in heaven every day if the ecosystem could work without them. im talking ALL bugs, bees, mosquitos, worms, spiders, everything.
You do know without those bugs the world wouldn't work right. Those are keystone species that allow the natural food cycle to work. And have you ever seen the bee movie, without bees there is no pollination. Be happy bugs exist lmao @@dr.chimpanz.1324
Yeah, they have insane impacts. Making a giant wall through an environment doesn’t exactly help species. Especially one that reflects heat back to the surrounding environment.
Suprising to see a lot of video essayist now started to come out and reveal their face. I guess that's the effect of AI for you. With that being said, glad to know this video was voice and directed by real peoples. Not like the commonplace AI driven content like bunch of AI channel out there. Great stuff and definitely would like to have more update on the most outlandish project made in the world out there!
Top Luxury face reveal is the biggest luxury we're getting! Thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in over the years! Always happy seeing a new video!
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg There is a metro and all the supplies you need, 5 minutes away from you. Are you really such a failure? Wait and you will see the future in Saudi Arabia, haha.
Can’t believe so few people can actually see what’s down the road.. these guys will be queuing up for a ‘handy’ microchip in their brains. You can count me out, thank you very much.. people need to wake up or mankind is doomed.. 🙈
I'm somewhat confident that they will finish those projects at least in a comparable scope as they planned to. However I'm just very sceptical that these structures/cities will be used. You can create what you want, but you can't force anyone to use what you've created. How can they have so much confidence that enough people will want this? Did they calculate the massive extra budget for incentivizing people to live there? What's the plan?
They'll send refugees to them from conflicts they create for profit. Can already see it coming a mile off. Build these cities, encourage the people who moved to the first world countries via immigration to go cities like the line and then leave them there and let them fall into disrepair. Alternatively, all the elites will migrate there and live out their weird micromanaged future just on themselves lmao
The plan is, probably, to stole bunch of money. Classic scheme, announce a mega project for the sake/glory of your country, steal 1/3 (or more) of the money, then cancel whole deal.
@@Defort-jd8xe I'm with teed on this one. Somewhat confident. When the entire budget comes from your own money, you tend to finish it, by hook or by crook. Look at Bangladesh's Padma Bridge for example. For Saudi Arabia, money isn't a problem at all. Projects get abandoned mostly due to funding issue especially when investors pull out, which is of no concern to NEOM. The concern really is whether people want to live here or not. For all we know, it might turn into a ghost city like those in China.
I believe they will have to offer financial incentives for the Saudi people to relocate to 'The Line' - There are still many Families with Elders who remember living nomadic lifestyles as Desert dwellers. A truly remarkable amount of changes in The Kingdom since the 1970's
This is what happens when a monarch has some fever dream visions and every architect, engineer or cost calculator is to afraid to tell him that it wont work. Or they all are happy as long as the money keeps flowing and will run to the nearest airport as soon as reality catches up to the visions.
Wow! I feel sick just thinking about this disgusting scar across the face of the planet. I cannot imagine living in such a claustrophobic monstrosity. Round and round we go in this cycle, never learning, never stopping to think.
And look at our cities??? It's like you people are honestly slow in the head. Go to any major city and try to go to your buddy's house 10 miles away. It will take you so ridiculously long. Now imagine if everyone lived in a straight line with bullet trains going up and down the line.
Thank you for covering both the human rights and carbon emissions issues with this. These projects as incredible as they are, are often built by foreign workers who are treated terribly.
Heyyy i live in saudi arabia and just to cleae up details, the carbon emissions will be wayyy lower than what people think i know a woman that works for them and she told me its green cement theyre gonna use and more sustainable construction techniques! Also human rights here are perfect tbh 10 years ago it was horrible but rn everyone is respected and free!! Also foreign workers in NEOM are treated well, they have a whole city for them with swimming pools, tennis courts and starbucks😭😭 yeaa
@@itsonlyxmabloxburg perfect human rights for ten years? Just five years ago Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in an embassy in Turkey. Does that not count? Just last year 81 men were executed on a single day (12 March). Also last year Salma al-Shehab a student studying in the UK was sentenced to 34 years in prison for Twitter posts. Should I continue? (Also it’s great they’re using green cement, that should become the international standard)
Foreign workers are aholes, this is one of the few points I like about the gulf countries, a Foreign worker stays a Foreign worker, finish his contract, get paid and then leaves unlike European Union or north America, now foreigners are ruling over natives.
I have low expectations for a lot of them. With tight deadlines there is messy cutting edges. I know their construction isn't near the same as over here in Latvia (taking 10 years to do a tiny bit of progress) but I know that construction is construction. And tight deadlines mean worse quality work and unsafe buildings.
I only found out about this project after meeting an engineer who is working on it in late Jan 2024. I'm absolutely blown away this has come so far with little fanfare. It will be interesting to see how far they progress in the next five years. I love your content and have just subscribed. Keep up the good work.
all the construction, transportation of materials, manpower, food, water and so on in the desert. Also creating the steel and all other building materials sure is gonna make a great emission free city:)
@@shahad7257 are you from Saudi Arabia? Can you talk how these projects are seen there? Does people even know about them, like talk about them daily, or casually?
@@Cuestrupaster i think it's mostly westeners being so in awe about all that. if you check for example, how quickly megacities appeared in china over just the past 25 years, that's not really that out of scope. europe and america are almsot at a development and civilization level standstill, or maybe already starting decay.
@@Cuestrupaster filling in for my fellow Saudi citizen, yes, we are fully aware of these projects and most importantly, we believe and trust our leadership. Another important thing, people outside our nation may think these are built for them and attract them but hell no, I'm preparing, planning and building a lifestyle from now so that when the time comes and these cities are ready to live in, I want to be first in line there. Call it delusion or whatever, and I'm not in a place to talk about feasibility but I again, we fully believe that it's happening and will become a reality one day and I guess we'll all see it unfold.
@@thecursed01in China 60 % of buildings would meet the EU requirements for being classified as “at risk of collapse”. None of the Chinese megacities will last. I was on a business trip in China recently and in my hotel I could literally break chunks out of the wall with my hand. Not only in my room but in the entire hotel. There are clips of stuff like that on TH-cam. Chinese cities are really what you can decaying.
I can see 200 years from now you'll have this dyspotian city where everything is always eerily pleasant, family friendly and security would be extremely tight...and the outside would be known as something like the void where people wouldnt dare venture. Beyond the walls would be like the wild west and home to the type of people you'd see in the max max movies...
How awesome! The giant line in the sand has *checks notes* not even finished what is required to get shit started, so excited for this project to be abandoned sometime between 2030 and 2035!
You mention Human Rights, the line project is actually part of the concept of 15-minute cities. Movement restrictions for residents, to closed complexes. Not everything is rosy.
@@lionelrumpf744 At the moment you can still move relatively freely. But unfortunately in the future 15 minute cities will be the places you cannot leave, or leave only if your carbon footprint wants the government. This too within a time limit, and frequency. Explore, and wake up.
Nice video. This massive construction has some amazing time frames. It would be nice to see the finished construction, but realistically it's a very difficult task. What's the main purpose? It looks like a panic attack to find a replacement for their oil revenue. To turn a desert into a tourist attraction is not an easy job. When Las Vegas was created it was surrounded around major nearby States such as Arizona and California. This NEOM project is actually in the middle of nowhere.
I love that there is now a face to this channel. It’s kinda weird, but your voice feels a bit robotic sometimes. Putting a face to it really makes it feel like a more genuine deep dive coming from an actual person. Please continue this in the future!
My concern about this project isn’t whether it’s viable. It’s that to make two 500 meter tall skyscraper walls extending 175 *kilometers*, it’s going to take approximately a year’s worth of the *entire global supply of steel*. Global steel prices in the years will be severely impacted if this project continues as planned.
that would mean that the steel industry, well before out of stock, will rise prices to insane level to reduce the demand pressure. To build the line you would have to export/import it so the price will be leverage too. this will mean that the cost of steel for the line would be even worse and the prices used to calculate the cost of it was based in a "cheap steel" era, so they will never be able to afford it. they will have to reduce construction speed to no affect demand too much. Increasing the cost of construction and maintenance over the construction period. (A side note. iron is really expensive right now and it is projected to stay at that level. in my country, that traditionally do not have iron mines because they are economically awful (some manage to stay afloat, and that is, like, the best case scenario), is having a boom of iron exploration and iron mine openings)
And you are not afraid that the south side facing the sun will actually reflect TWO suns in the hottest place on earth? The good thing is, it will create a case for energy production using the heat gradient of the north side...
@@jcd-k2s That's nothing, it will act as a giant wind sail in one of the windiest places on Earth. Luckily there is no chance of this happening, another Dubai failed project, but if it did the structure is completely idiotic even to ppl who have 0 engineering education.
@@rmac3217 That's also true, I was so focused on the sun part that I forgot it will channel the wind on 170 km. That is fantastically stupid. I am really ashamed of all the money poured into that stupidity. The world could be a fantastic place, but our elites prefer to suck those idiot dicks.
I think your correct. It feels like an effort to cause inflation in the USA and add it to every other terr attack they make on our country. How long will we allow other countries to use our dollar to pay for things they use against us. Babylon still reigns triumphet over the globes economy.the location of these places tells me they don't want them to be successful.. how do you get the world's tourists into the furthest isolated locations affordable and timely.
I cant imagine living in something like that, it seems like a futuristic dystopian prison where you aren't really a prisoner but you kinda still are...
I appreciate how you brought up all the logistical, environmental, and ethical concerns of these projects. I dont want saudi to fail, but I dont see these projects being even 50% of what they promised.
I never heard about the arrests and death sentences before. That really shocked me. Thanks for doing such in depth research and sharing that information.
Saudi hangs gays from cranes (look it up). It would surprise me if they weren’t arresting and/or executing people over this. Their government are abject savages the way they treat their people.
i have three massive questions though, 1, where will the food come from to feed everyone in these future cities? 2. where will the water come from because if it's just distillation then that puts more strain on question 3 3. what will their source of power even be for all this?
1- same way they've been feeding everyone in the middle of the desert .. imports 2 - same way they've been getting water everywhere else in saudi arabia .. water trucks and pipes 3 - same way they've been powering other cities + extra power projects such as solar and possibly nuclear power plant
Saudi is the world leading country in distillation, and one of the earliest NEOM projects announced is the Solar Dome distillation plant ("At an estimated $0.34/m3, the cost of producing water via “solar dome” technology will be significantly lower than desalination plants using reverse osmosis methods") For energy, already afoot the largest Green Hydrogen energy plant ('Located in Oxagon, the NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) facility will be the largest commercial-scale green hydrogen production facility. NGHC is a joint venture of ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM. Upon completion in 2026, it is expected to produce 600 tons of carbon-free a day (1.2M tonnes of green ammonia annually); estimated annual reduction of up to 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.' But this is in addition to other renewable energy sources.) For food, I know that they have an accelerator program for food sustainability start-ups, and are planning on ("producing an innovative food sector with a total output of over 600,000 tons by 2030, it has announced. Fruits and vegetables will be the main produced components, contributing some 325,000 tons, followed by alternative meat and dairy products with a total of 178,000 tons. Aquaculture and grains came next with production plans of 80,000 tons and 48,000 tons respectively, according to the company. For aquaculture, production mainly targets native species that live in the Red Sea waters in order to maximize local sustainability such as Yellowtail Kingfish, Great Amberjack, Orange-spotted Grouper, and Meagre. NEOM aims for a total output of 80,000 tons per year for all of these species, helping it to exceed self-sufficiency levels.")
The Saudi population is expected to grow by ~13m people over the next 35 years (37m to 50m population), so you have to get extra food, water and utilities there anyway whether the population lives on the line or somewhere else. It might be relatively efficient to have distribution and infrastructure in a straight line with good rail service connected to a big port? East Africa is relatively close by sea and likely has spare agricultural capacity. While I don't really understand why the line can't be shorter and thicker, Saudi has to build and provide something for the additional population anyway. Comparing the build CO2 for buildings supporting 8-9m people to the annual CO2 of a fairly energy efficient, densely populated and hugely service based economy that builds ~150k homes per year doesn't really tell me much. A better comparison would be to the same infrastructure built onto existing Saudi cities and towns, or a more traditional design.
Nice to see the team behind this channel. I remember subscribing to this channel when it was only at 5k subscribers. Now its almost 900k huge. Congrats.
When the next financial crises hits or oil price collapses half of these projects will get cancelled. Saudia is just desert and oil, not really sustainable. I am not sure why they are not investing in improving lives of their existing populace instead of trying to attract rich foreigners. Feels like a disaster waiting to happen.
1. Congrats on the growth. I see the effort and you guys deserve to grow. 2. The Line has already been debunked many times over for being an insanely inefficient design by being, well, a line, instead of a circle or similar.with a circle, one can travel from one ‘end’ to the other by crossing the middle, thus making it at least 50% more efficient. This and Dubai and are starting to feel very much like China’s ghost cities.
the point of the line is that you dont have to travel to the other end on regular basis. a circle would not make the city much more efficient, and less space for expansion
The problem with circular design which we see in current infrastructure are people trying to cross to different sides and traffic getting congested towards the middle cause no one wants to go all the way around. A line would solve this problem even tho yes you have to go a longer distance, it would be uninterrupted other than a few stops vs lots of traffic in the center of a circle slowing you down a lot.
@@josiahroa177 how will you get past the endless string of poop tankers that are required as arabs seem to have no idea of what "sewerage systems" are? you think its a good idea, you are welcome to live in a country like saudi arabia. hope you like bashing women, kicking dogs, spitting at people, calling them infidels, and various other happy chappy requirements of islam.
I can't predict its success, but I find the experiment and project fascinating. A quick piece of advice for everyone: if you label something as bad without providing any supporting arguments, it holds little weight. To be taken seriously, it's crucial to present comprehensive reasons behind your critique.
lol 9 train stations. At 170km long, that's 19 km or 11 miles between stations. There are no roads, and no cars. Are people really going to walk 10km/5mi to get to the closest station? The original 48 stations made it 1.7km/1mi to walk to the nearest station, which is long, but workable. I'm not sure they're actually taking the construction of this thing seriously. It's going to be hilarious to see how this one pans out.
Even if any of this god forsaken NEOM project will stand finished at any point in the future, the sheer scale of how wasteful it all is hurting my brain. Stop building stupid expensive city shit in the desert.
It's completely laughable. I feel bad for people who fall for this futuristic BS. We've already invented great ways to develop a city and infrastructure and transport. This makes no sense.
@@AndersMJustesenoh come on just because it's made by Saudi Arabia that much hate if it was on western country you guys going to cheer and clap for them and be like can't wait for this project to be finished The amount of contradiction and hypocrisy in you people astonishing 😂
A dystopian prison city for the poor, a ski resort to host the Asian winter games and a luxury island resort for the rich. I would have rather seen a 1-2 mile high tower/city with an indoor ski resort, tropical resort, water and amusement park etc. It would have been cheaper to build and become a world wide attraction that actually interests people. Imagine an indoor ski resort winding through a mile high tower from top to bottom.
I don't think we are capable to build that high yet. Also it would just be cool for the ridiculous pomposity and shock factor. Probbly boring the third day you'd visit, nd then if you want to ski just go to a ski resort, much larger than the inside of a skyscraper. You don't need that big of a mall. It's not really useful or magical. I'd think it would be way cooler if they built some innovative ridiculous solar powered tunnel system that transports ground water to the whole country, oasis under the dunes and flying houses. Just put the money into research, get the best minds and build something you only can with that much money, not just a bigger version of something we alteady have
The MEGA in Canada is a contiguous line self contained building for the Canadian Forces Basic Training in St.Jean Quebec, I lived inside the MEGA for a year it was BANANAS, the only reason we left the building was for a smoke break or running the track.
Considering how they are putting the importance of "everything being within walking distance", it will only relate to what is in the nearest vicinity. It would take a while to even get from 3/4 to the middle of the structure. Therefore, this would create a divide between the population, classes almost - e.g. the richest being near the marina or the top. I honestly see no point in this design. As well as isolate people and limit who they meet.
With only 9 subway stations instead of 48, we can estimate that properties around these stations would be consider good, rest in between would be like suburbs. 5-8km to nearest station.
My take: Sindalah is genuinely not unbelievable. It will definitely be completed, and will also be a big hit. Trojan has to be completed for the games, but I doubt it's life after the games. The line will probably be a bit dystopian. I don't see any upper class willingly going to such a place. Saudi will probably relocate all their lower class to this place. It could also house the families of all of the workers working in the other 3 projects once complete. The oxagon is supposed to be industrial. It does make a lot of sense to have a functioning mega port in the red sea, and it's surprising that it doesn't already exist, but I just think that the failure of the line will exhaust the money and enthusiasm for this project, and it will probably be severely downsized. In the end, a port doesn't have to look pretty. The don't need to make it a tourist spot. It just has to be functional
Damn, they could have used a fraction of that construction effort to extend seawater into a system of rivers deep into the desert, creating new ecosystems (and marginally hindering the global rise of sea-level). They could have created all the fancy, fun shapes they wanted and still added transit and built new cities. Not that this isn't all cool as hell if it gets even partially completed. Who's gonna live here? No idea but increasing the global housing stock, if it's sufficiently well-connected, can only have positive second-order effects.
I feel like you guys have some extra access to the information about NEOM. Like they're telling you when they're ready for people to know what they're doing. OR, you're extremely good journalists and make phenomenal content that can't be found elsewhere. Either way, I'm here for it. I absolutely love your videos, keep up the amazing work 👏 ❤️ 💙
When i first found this channel the content felt very generic and AI generated. Now it has turned into a great channel well worth subscribing to that deliveres actual new information with great visuals. Keep up the good work!
The real question should be why are they creating these locations? A solar-powered line city. A vault dug into a mountain. Are they preparing for catastrophe?
0:29 i didn't expect this tbh but, thanks a lot for regis and the whole team for creating one of exciting and entertaining all those videos. Big Respect 🎉🎉🎉🎉
It seems odd to me to question if they can pipe in water and desalinate it to create a winter resort. This is something we did in America 100 years ago. Just because we no longer take risk or have massive public works projects here doesnt mean the rest of the world is unable to do it.
The whole idea of this project is dumb. The snow resort in the desert is just to try to grab attention. The line especially is completely impractical, they literally chose the most inefficient shape to build it.
@@verumignis4778 I dunno about that. A thin line does have the advantage that it will be far cheaper and easier to keep the place cool. It's basically impossible to cool down a large open square without pumping billions into air conditioning, for example. The line as it stands will act like a deep canyon and will basically have its own microclimate inside. In that regard, it's not a bad idea. Especially in a desert - which is what the whole country essentially is.
@@verumignis4778 Who cares about it being efficient? Is the resort going to be a fun place to visit or not is the only thing that is going to decide if its succeeds. The recent western world obsession with whether or not something is the most efficient well calculated way to do something is so narrow minded its no wonder the west is failing. Look at California.... is it efficient for 40 million people to live in a desert? No but they do because they want to and we have the means to make it happen.
I would love to see something like this completed and be successful. I'm just worried about some of these sights becoming forgotten after the Olympics. This seems to be the trend with hosting countries.
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Yes but can you do australia it will be so cool
I’m surprised as shit tbh like that they even broke ground in honestly just flabbergasted, impressed is still up in the air. TBD.
Finally good to see your face!
If even one of these projects will be finished and stay commercially viable for any amount of time i will be massively impressed.
Exactly. It sounds like a pie in the sky idea. However, if you throw enough money at something, eventually you’ll get something done. But whether that’s actually economically viable, or implemented well is a totally different story. Years ago my friend rented a presidential suite in Sydney. It looked amazing from outside. A big open plan apartment on the top floor! But inside, if you looked closely you could see that the floors were slightly lopsided, the electrical circuit was failing in some areas, the walls were warped, the tiles were cracked and misaligned, and plumbing was terrible. You can’t fake good workmanship. You can only hope to fool people for long enough to get paid. My friend moved out after a few months.
The slaves will try their best
Most never stay open
the island is pretty doable, there is nothing extravagant here, the rest is going to be ghost town never finished like you find so many in china
In fact I will graduate from being a wizard if that becomes the case.
I really struggle to imagine any of these projects either getting finished, or if they somehow do, managing to stay afloat. Dubai has already proved time and time again that a lot of these huge scale projects just aren't attractive to outside investors/residents, especially in these climates.
Dude Dubai has a massive restate industry and has literal millions of people living in it. Dubai is a massive success. Large scale projects can work if done properly.
Not to say the idiotic The Line will work though.
@@AL-lh2hthow many years since Dubai build anything noticable? 5? 10? They don't even have the money to dismantle all the failed attempts at islands.
@@AL-lh2ht I mean yeah normal Dubai is fine, but stuff like The World were complete flops.
1 of my friends who worked there told me the Climate is really nice
@@AL-lh2htand yet, they still don't have a functioning sewer system
Here is my prediction. They will complete about 20% of its full length before realizing that the initial vision has to be scaled down tremendously due to the sheer amount of cost and time it will take
Yep, not sure how you just build a city and expect it to have an economy and culture. Cities don't work that way.
I want i finished full size, so it became money sink for Saudi, imagine how much money needed for maintenance, i love watch rich people loosing money for their stupidity
Are you crazy? The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is planning to launch 3 projects in this way in other cities
20%? That's 30 kilometres of two 500m tall parallel, continuous skyscrapers. I'd call that a success.
I think this will be finished. I believe there is a reason this is spoken about the World Economic Forum along side 15 minute cities being tested in roam. This will be used to solve climate change by sticking the poor in a prison and the rich having the word for themselves.
How cheerful this dude is about a looming dystopia is dystopian in itself.
Yes. ! ..... I got nothing but hunger games vibes from all this 🤨
Great man made structures might be stupid in the short term, but remembered in the long term. I'm sure the general population of historical Egypt didn't agree with the immense effort of the pyramids. But they are iconic today, even after the fall of the egyption empire thousands of years before.
@@rihasanatrofolo2472 Yes, but is that worth it? The inhumane amount of sacrifice necessary to build these structures and for what? A legacy to be remembered? A landmark for future generations to marvel at?
@@99vongola99 Sure, who cares. None of us will be around the next houndres years anyways.
I agree that right now, the ethics and morals of it does matter. But thousands of years into the future, no one will care. The pyramids is probably the most diabolical use of slavery in human history but we still call it one of the seven wonders today.
@@rihasanatrofolo2472 they cant even build a regular tower, there is literally no way they are going to build a 100 mile long cyber future CITY
"The vision is that everything is within walking distance." flash forward to "The number of subway stops has been reduced from 48 to 9". So basically, you have to walk 8.5km one way to get to a location in between stops now. This level of city planning at this early stage should paint a pretty clear picture for the urban hell that is to come.
Why did they reduce a lot? Because their excuse is they can't afford it, but at least it'll be some work in progress for the meantime
It's very unlikely building another 31 stops is too expensive when they are still planning to build 150km of building. If I had to guess, it's just straight-up scope creep, as the subway will have to be one of the first things laid out, so it's one of the first things being addressed. That said, if this is happening with some of the first elements of the build, just wait until they start construction. 150km reduced to 100km reduced to 50km reduced to an abandoned project? Who knows.@@nohlanfisherman5185
They will increase stops from time to time, and you can bet there will be Ubers or Taxis too
@@liberallarry847 I think there's meant to be no roads except for maybe maintenance access, as it's meant to be a people-first, walkable city. Can't be having car exhaust pumping in an enclosed space.
@@rrrenaissanceee Electric cars don't have exhaust fumes
The reduction in the train system is a microcosm of how this whole project will end up. It will be far far far below what was promised.
Yup I agree!!! Like I said in an earlier comment, the plan sounds good on paper but in reality it just won't work!🤷🏾♂️ it's good to have big goals don't get me wrong, but some things just aren't possible...
@@iamBlackGambit both buildings will be among the top 15 tallest in the world... and they're both going to be 90 miles long too. truly mind boggling.
Yeah.
Having a so-called "walkable city" (now only) 120 km long with only 9 stations?
Doesnt bode well at all. Folks dont walk - or carry their furniture/luggage/groceries - 6 km´s one way.
Good public transportation tries have stations within 0.5 km of population centers to be useful, less preferred. Even 43 was too few for that, 9 is ridiculous.
This sounded like a pipe dream from the first animation - the more is revealed and the more we see of the progress, the more it sounds like a useless, nay stupid money pit. Ski resort in one of the hottest places on earth 🙄, desalinaton for 3-5 million people.
They will probably forget basic plumbing too, like Burj Califa.
@user-un8tv1pp8m yea it's just not feasible.
Not gonna happen
All these projects are just madness madness madness... imagine what amazing and ACTUALLY sustainable things could be done with all that money, effort and workpower
but that would require building places people actually want to live in, and that's just now what these are for. they're just stupidly envisioned ideas by wealthy people who just wanna throw money at something so that other wealthy people will throw even more money at it. just look at NYC and its billionaire skyscrapers. they're all just investments. nothing needs to work as they say it will. it just needs to be flashy.
your comment deserves so much more likes. I cry when I see that
@@jcd-k2s you can cry if it's your money other wise don't cry or cry it's up to you.
@@jcd-k2sok crybaby
Right? Imagine all the environmental projects they could create, or all that money going into parts of healthcare or science. But nah fuck it let's build some giant city for neoliberal post-capitalist corporate greed profit.
Minimalist plan (*just a thought exercise):
1. Build 1km (length) of The Line’s towers/structures at each of the 9 transit stops, but with just 1 tower & not 2. Substitute the second southernmost tower with a 100m tall x 1km length solar energy collector panel. This preserves the middle area as seen in the artists conceptions.
2. Skip Trojena: ski areas with borderline freezing temperatures just don’t work. Just ask any of the USA’s southernmost ski areas about their struggles in the warm years.
3. Sindalah and Hidden Marina are most likely to be the success stories. The Line might then work as a suburb and transit system for them.
😮p
lol building the line in sections seems entirely too reasonable. Maybe when you have god level cash flow you don't even consider anything less than what you want
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Are they ready for when the towers fall in the day of the Lord throughout the whole earth.
[Isa 30:25-26 KJV] 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
I'm looking forward to the new city that will be 1500 miles high on the new earth in the new heaven full of people that love each other and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Will you be there?
[Rev 21:1-2 KJV] 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Continue reading Revelation 21 for details.
I thought this was already debunked. The buildup of Sand alone would render it unusuable, not to mention massive heat. Just because it's a big project doesn't mean it can't fail. Think of the Hyperloop, solar powered roadways and the entire EV market. Pretty much anything invented by Elon Musk is doomed to fail.
I have no words for how dystopian this is going to be. You be surprised if it lasts more than a year.
It has lasted for 2 years. But that's because they are rich enough to keep a lie for quite some time. But it won't be what people are dreaming it to be.
@@hpmc7426 One thing is building it, other much different is sustain it. In a year or so (after its construction) no one would want to stay there.
800billion dollars, let that sink in for moment, what a waste
Lol so many hate, let us rise in a world of future while your country steal 50% taxes from you then objectify your women to distract you.
@@hpmc7426maybe because you’re poor enough you can’t afford goals. You only dream 😅
We've had the ability to make cities in straight lines from the very beginning, and didn't for good reasons. It's artificially crowded and limits mobility--which are enough issues already, without even needing to think up minor disasters.
The idea of the suburb is supposed to put what you need as close as possible, grocery store, school, shopping district etc, then the same old scenery gets boring.
The simple fact we have a curious brain makes the 'walkable city' unappealing.
@@rmac3217Walkable City is only boring to Americans. A city being walkable is one of the most important elements of European urban infrastructure
@@rmac3217my man what kinda crack are you on, personally im not curious for getting run over by cars
My favourite part is how they are building AWAY from the water, 150km into a stretch of empty, sun scorched desert when they could have easily built the entire city around the water... you know, where people typically want to live.
@@rowanmelton7643 Last time I checked Europeans still use vehicles. But if you are referring to Copenhagen for it's bicycle culture, the city is also densely populated over a tiny area, while the average American urban city is spread out over 10x the area or more.
This is gonna be one of the coolest abandoned mega structures ever
Look mom I’m famous
Why so many likes??
Or cemetery
One of those lost places hotspots.
Saudi Arabia has never falied in any project in the last 10 years
You're gonna look very dumb soon
can't wait to play airsoft in it
can't wait that they actually finish it so that y'll stop talking
Sand will pile up on the sides of The Line and the other projects on the coasts and on the islands will be swallowed by the sea. Good stuff 👍
I'm no expert but I just want to see how these projects actually look if they're ever finished, compared to the renders. The renders all look insane and futuristic but I imagine it just isn't practical and engineers will force it to become far more blocky, boring and dystopian looking. In particular trojena, the bit cut out of the mountain.
Yeah just look at all those islands made of concrete and sand that never completed.
Upside is that in the future people will have great spooky exploration locations to discover
They'll probably cut the height by around 80%, the length by even more, and call it a success.
As if the renders arent already dystopian looking.
@@Sivanottoo many trees, arabs hate trees in reality.
@@keelo-bytelol, that’s why the Middle East is a desert we burned them all down
My only complaint is that using a straight line maximizes travel time. There's a reason why most cities are vaguely circle-like. Construction will cease somewhere around the time when they discover that the there's no reason to build the widget factory 500 miles west when you can just build it to the left a bit.
Actually it minimises travel time. Straight lines are the shortest distance between two points and this city will have state of the art underground transport.
Edit: OK they scaled down the underground transport a bit, but it should still be very fast
@@TheMonkeydood a circle allows you to have more points closer together.
@@TheMonkeydood😂
wish they had connected another city to the Marina.@@TheMonkeydood
@@TheMonkeydoodyou're joking, right?
Top luxury doing a face reveal is the most shocking thing ever
Sarcasm🙃
FAX
He has shown his face on his other channels before this
It is a pleasantly surprised!
Damn right 😮
Thanks for the update. So basically, it hasn't started.
While I think The Line won’t be completely done by 2030, if they can really finish this and it becomes a success, I’ll be very surprised.
I see massive fail written all over it.
They’re not planning to finish the Line by 2030. They are planning to finish the first phase by 2030.
Will they build something? Sure. But it definitely won't be built to be anything near like what the plans are.
They’re already scaling back the total scope of the project. I highly doubt the finished product will look anything like how it’s being marketed
@@PJMontoyasays who?
It’s interesting that “The Line” will essentially be a 15 minute city and my guess it will be inhabited by the lower classes while Trojans, Sindalah and Oxagon are luxury destinations for the very, very wealthy. Also, The Line is being sold as a climate friendly space while the other spots are full of airports and marinas for mega yachts.
You said it 👍🏻
I don't even think anyone would stay here
you shall not cross THE LINE peasant!
The Line is literally the 15-minutes conspiracy given life. The feverdream of a tyrant. The other projects aren't much better. All of them are built to make them easy to keep under control.
The deep state agenda
Be interesting to see how sandstorms interact with this structure; seems perfectly designed to create a 150km long dune if they don't keep clearing it away. Locating small houses or even tall towers in a windy dusty environment is one thing, but locating a 150km long 500m tall _baffle_ there is quite another...
Yes, a honking big reflective sand jetty.
Good point
Like a huge snow catcher but for sand. Future will tell 🍿
even if it is finished and even if it is amazing, it wont take long for the shiny new to be come tired and shabby. this happens to most things once the novelty has worn off.
The small imperfections in the walls will lead to the sand just melting to glass before it can become a dune. No worries. LMAO
The future dystopia will be heralded in a cheerful, advertiser-friendly voice.
I dont understand these comments, is him talking about it in a bad way gonna change anything? Like it changed when they got mad about the sand island? At this point just be happy and excited about how cool a construction like this would look and how big of an achievement it would be, cuz the only way for them to stop is if they dont have enough funds 😂
One thing I can say pretty confidently is these futuristic type of mega builds generally don't turnout to be how they invisioned them. I think it's a cool idea but is very impractical to build such a large structure. Not to mention they have several projects going on at once. Let's just take a look at the Abu Dhabi islands project that still to this day isn't complete. Even with a large portion of it done, it doesn't generate the money they thought it would. I cannot imagine anyone really wanting to live inside a wall that stretches for miles upon miles. Such a thing continues to build on an ever growing dystopian society. That's pretty much how these things go, royalty wants something done, so they put billions of dollars into it. Then it's either never completed or started. Doesn't really benefit the areas population. In fact it makes it harder to live in the area. Like the guy said, the carbon footprint is disgustingly massive! Personally I think not telling royalty no, often results in a bad ending. The reality of it is no matter what happens we don't live in a movie. There isn't going to be this perfect utopian society! That is the main reason I think this is a bad idea!
Building something that costs the carbon of a country over a four year span that then has net carbon zero forever..... yeah terrible
Nobody wants to live in Saudi Arabia period, it’s a hot desert with a dictatorship government that has a history of gross violations of human rights. Khashoggi is one of the cases that comes to mind in particular.
the entire prospect of royalty is the problem here. in this day and age there should not be families lourding over everyone else because they are the richest its just backwards as fuck. but then again thats saudi arabia in a nutshell. backwards ass people believeing in nonsensical fairytales about a pedophile...
I would live there lol. Saudi is much safer than wherever you are from
@@user-rc2bp2sy5xtravel and learn don't just believe what your little Western based news feed gives you.
We have luxury, its called nature. Nothing we make can ever compete with the pureness and ease of mind nature brings
i would agree but bugs exist. I would be in heaven every day if the ecosystem could work without them. im talking ALL bugs, bees, mosquitos, worms, spiders, everything.
You do know without those bugs the world wouldn't work right. Those are keystone species that allow the natural food cycle to work. And have you ever seen the bee movie, without bees there is no pollination. Be happy bugs exist lmao @@dr.chimpanz.1324
@@dr.chimpanz.1324 Man up.
What’s wrong with bugs? Mosquito spray and the rest are mostly harmful and ease to keep abay
lol. i guess theres "nature" in saudi arabia, but its really a big ass hot dry dessert
A ski resort in the desert.....Genius idea....
I will absolutely need a place to park my yacht. Thanks Sindala.
imagine how much these projects impact the nature around those areas. these projects are really insane.
Yeah, they have insane impacts. Making a giant wall through an environment doesn’t exactly help species. Especially one that reflects heat back to the surrounding environment.
you people are really high on it, it's a fricking desert what eco-system are we talking about here?
it's non-existent.
@@ChipCheeriogay
all for the pleasure of rich people who have more money than they know what to do with!
Gaza 2.0
Suprising to see a lot of video essayist now started to come out and reveal their face. I guess that's the effect of AI for you. With that being said, glad to know this video was voice and directed by real peoples. Not like the commonplace AI driven content like bunch of AI channel out there.
Great stuff and definitely would like to have more update on the most outlandish project made in the world out there!
Top Luxury face reveal is the biggest luxury we're getting! Thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in over the years! Always happy seeing a new video!
My nephew is literally over there as we speak over seeing the build he sent all kinds of videos its so cool
Thank you for updating us on these fancy prisons. The Line looks like hell to me.
Come on now each side is going to be 500 meters high can you imagine the homo tossing contests they can hold on those things?
@@shadowbanned5164I’m sure the Line will have a thriving LGBTQÆ+ community
Zero cars and it looks like a gigantic deathtrap Definitely hell
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg There is a metro and all the supplies you need, 5 minutes away from you. Are you really such a failure? Wait and you will see the future in Saudi Arabia, haha.
@@mjed7938 it is you who is the failure, haha.
What a dystopian nightmare. This will never be finished and I am glad.
Can’t believe so few people can actually see what’s down the road.. these guys will be queuing up for a ‘handy’ microchip in their brains. You can count me out, thank you very much.. people need to wake up or mankind is doomed.. 🙈
@@michaelakenworthy6317but think of the convinience!
These people looked at the futuristic anime towns in the middle of nowhere surrounded by big walls and said "Yea, this should do it"
And always missing the point that those futuristic anime towns are dystopian nightmares.
I'm somewhat confident that they will finish those projects at least in a comparable scope as they planned to. However I'm just very sceptical that these structures/cities will be used. You can create what you want, but you can't force anyone to use what you've created. How can they have so much confidence that enough people will want this? Did they calculate the massive extra budget for incentivizing people to live there? What's the plan?
They never finished projects 1/10th of their size and abandoned them.. but somewhat you're confident now? Stop being so naive.
They'll send refugees to them from conflicts they create for profit. Can already see it coming a mile off. Build these cities, encourage the people who moved to the first world countries via immigration to go cities like the line and then leave them there and let them fall into disrepair.
Alternatively, all the elites will migrate there and live out their weird micromanaged future just on themselves lmao
The plan is, probably, to stole bunch of money. Classic scheme, announce a mega project for the sake/glory of your country, steal 1/3 (or more) of the money, then cancel whole deal.
if it fails as a city,they will likely just change its use to largest jail
@@Defort-jd8xe I'm with teed on this one. Somewhat confident. When the entire budget comes from your own money, you tend to finish it, by hook or by crook. Look at Bangladesh's Padma Bridge for example. For Saudi Arabia, money isn't a problem at all. Projects get abandoned mostly due to funding issue especially when investors pull out, which is of no concern to NEOM. The concern really is whether people want to live here or not. For all we know, it might turn into a ghost city like those in China.
I am grateful for Dubai and Saudi pursuing these sorts of projects as it hastens their demise.
Not gonna lie, first. And seeing you Regis for the first time in years is an honor. Your voice is soooo soothing.
exactly!
Thank you :)
@@MegaBuildsYTThank YOU for the passion you have trasmitted to me about this amazing industry.
This project proves that we humans are more than deserving of an honorary Darwin Award.
if you consider that saudi's villages don't have the basic structure, this is fucking crazy
@@marcopasqual9010 Do you ever heard of the poop trucks of the Burj Kalifa? If not, do yourself a favor and search for a video about them.
Have you lived in Saudi? I have.
You are uninformed.@@marcopasqual9010
This is just flat out false.@@steemlenn8797
@@steemlenn8797 in fact this all oil-country are shit, with no respect of human rights
I believe they will have to offer financial incentives for the Saudi people to relocate to 'The Line' - There are still many Families with Elders who remember living nomadic lifestyles as Desert dwellers. A truly remarkable amount of changes in The Kingdom since the 1970's
This is what happens when a monarch has some fever dream visions and every architect, engineer or cost calculator is to afraid to tell him that it wont work.
Or they all are happy as long as the money keeps flowing and will run to the nearest airport as soon as reality catches up to the visions.
Found the democrapcy fanboy 🤣
@@NunoFilipe99found the 10 year old 'sigma'😂
Wow! I feel sick just thinking about this disgusting scar across the face of the planet. I cannot imagine living in such a claustrophobic monstrosity. Round and round we go in this cycle, never learning, never stopping to think.
The concept of building a city in the shape of a line takes what makes cities work (proximity & density) and throws it al out of the window.
but imagine the fun jeremy clarkson will have to drive the entire length of it on the roof!
@@thecursed01I’m a huge gt fan so yup , agreed 😂
Its the pinnacle of growing stupidity in modern architecture & city planning
And look at our cities??? It's like you people are honestly slow in the head. Go to any major city and try to go to your buddy's house 10 miles away. It will take you so ridiculously long. Now imagine if everyone lived in a straight line with bullet trains going up and down the line.
it's not meant to be a city. it's a prison, but they obviously don't want people to know that.
There's definitely a James Bond-esque ending to this project
Thank you for covering both the human rights and carbon emissions issues with this. These projects as incredible as they are, are often built by foreign workers who are treated terribly.
just like every other world wonder we have on this hairless ape planet.
Heyyy i live in saudi arabia and just to cleae up details, the carbon emissions will be wayyy lower than what people think i know a woman that works for them and she told me its green cement theyre gonna use and more sustainable construction techniques! Also human rights here are perfect tbh 10 years ago it was horrible but rn everyone is respected and free!! Also foreign workers in NEOM are treated well, they have a whole city for them with swimming pools, tennis courts and starbucks😭😭 yeaa
@@itsonlyxmabloxburgNice reply from the Saudi propaganda department. How do you gloss over executing gays? Go on, try it.
@@itsonlyxmabloxburg perfect human rights for ten years? Just five years ago Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in an embassy in Turkey. Does that not count? Just last year 81 men were executed on a single day (12 March). Also last year Salma al-Shehab a student studying in the UK was sentenced to 34 years in prison for Twitter posts. Should I continue? (Also it’s great they’re using green cement, that should become the international standard)
Foreign workers are aholes, this is one of the few points I like about the gulf countries, a Foreign worker stays a Foreign worker, finish his contract, get paid and then leaves unlike European Union or north America, now foreigners are ruling over natives.
With such looong term projects a once a year update would be great.
You could also update on the finished once to see if they live up to the hype
Neom is doing a progress video every 6 months...
I have low expectations for a lot of them. With tight deadlines there is messy cutting edges. I know their construction isn't near the same as over here in Latvia (taking 10 years to do a tiny bit of progress) but I know that construction is construction. And tight deadlines mean worse quality work and unsafe buildings.
Time will tell... Don't forget burj khalifa was completed in like 6 years.... One of the most complex engineering marvel
@@FaizanShaikh-ih3uu yea and it was built without a connection to a sewer system
@@dmka12due to money not time
@@ziyad26 due to stupidity. Not money 😂
@@dmka12 Because there was no sewage network at the time. What do you expect them to do? Built the sewage system for the entire city?
I only found out about this project after meeting an engineer who is working on it in late Jan 2024. I'm absolutely blown away this has come so far with little fanfare. It will be interesting to see how far they progress in the next five years. I love your content and have just subscribed. Keep up the good work.
all the construction, transportation of materials, manpower, food, water and so on in the desert. Also creating the steel and all other building materials sure is gonna make a great emission free city:)
As they offer jobs people will eventually be welling to go live there , talking for myself as a Saudi citizen I would love to go live there
@@shahad7257 are you from Saudi Arabia? Can you talk how these projects are seen there? Does people even know about them, like talk about them daily, or casually?
@@Cuestrupaster i think it's mostly westeners being so in awe about all that. if you check for example, how quickly megacities appeared in china over just the past 25 years, that's not really that out of scope. europe and america are almsot at a development and civilization level standstill, or maybe already starting decay.
@@Cuestrupaster filling in for my fellow Saudi citizen, yes, we are fully aware of these projects and most importantly, we believe and trust our leadership. Another important thing, people outside our nation may think these are built for them and attract them but hell no, I'm preparing, planning and building a lifestyle from now so that when the time comes and these cities are ready to live in, I want to be first in line there.
Call it delusion or whatever, and I'm not in a place to talk about feasibility but I again, we fully believe that it's happening and will become a reality one day and I guess we'll all see it unfold.
@@thecursed01in China 60 % of buildings would meet the EU requirements for being classified as “at risk of collapse”. None of the Chinese megacities will last. I was on a business trip in China recently and in my hotel I could literally break chunks out of the wall with my hand. Not only in my room but in the entire hotel. There are clips of stuff like that on TH-cam.
Chinese cities are really what you can decaying.
Winter Games in the Dessert, that is good humor i like it. :D
I think we'll surprise you, wait and see 😉👍🏽
The projects are insane. 🤯
I can see 200 years from now you'll have this dyspotian city where everything is always eerily pleasant, family friendly and security would be extremely tight...and the outside would be known as something like the void where people wouldnt dare venture. Beyond the walls would be like the wild west and home to the type of people you'd see in the max max movies...
Something like in Blade Runner .
Id live in a city with no crime if that means no privacy😊
Isaac asimov books
Updates being so hard to find tells you all you need to know about how this project is going.
The projects are in remote areas. Also there are enough updates in arabic, not so much for english
@@Ammarx1 nah, the projects are failing
@@Ammarx1 I believe the truth
@@Ammarx1 where can i find such updates? Do you have a link or something to search for?
They have a TH-cam channel@@timbonator1
It's good to see your face (finally) and a lot of original content. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot! Really nice to get so much positive feedback.
Fun fact about Saudi Arabia: the economy is based 67% on oil, 33% on 3D rendering
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That is funny !
How awesome! The giant line in the sand has *checks notes* not even finished what is required to get shit started, so excited for this project to be abandoned sometime between 2030 and 2035!
Why am I getting massive Bond villain vibes learning about this project?
You mention Human Rights, the line project is actually part of the concept of 15-minute cities. Movement restrictions for residents, to closed complexes. Not everything is rosy.
15-minutes cities is litterally where 80% of European lives and oh boy is it better than 1h drive cities like in the US
@@lionelrumpf744 At the moment you can still move relatively freely. But unfortunately in the future 15 minute cities will be the places you cannot leave, or leave only if your carbon footprint wants the government. This too within a time limit, and frequency. Explore, and wake up.
i have been watching this channel for just a few days now, but im so happy i can be here 10 minutes after it was posted!
Nice video. This massive construction has some amazing time frames. It would be nice to see the finished construction, but realistically it's a very difficult task. What's the main purpose? It looks like a panic attack to find a replacement for their oil revenue. To turn a desert into a tourist attraction is not an easy job. When Las Vegas was created it was surrounded around major nearby States such as Arizona and California. This NEOM project is actually in the middle of nowhere.
Nice to see who the team behind these videos are and how dedicated they are! Keep up the great content
Yes please keep us updated on this dumpster fire in the making!
I love that there is now a face to this channel. It’s kinda weird, but your voice feels a bit robotic sometimes. Putting a face to it really makes it feel like a more genuine deep dive coming from an actual person. Please continue this in the future!
This is exactly what we wanted to achieve, thank you for the feedback! 🙏
My concern about this project isn’t whether it’s viable. It’s that to make two 500 meter tall skyscraper walls extending 175 *kilometers*, it’s going to take approximately a year’s worth of the *entire global supply of steel*. Global steel prices in the years will be severely impacted if this project continues as planned.
that would mean that the steel industry, well before out of stock, will rise prices to insane level to reduce the demand pressure. To build the line you would have to export/import it so the price will be leverage too.
this will mean that the cost of steel for the line would be even worse and the prices used to calculate the cost of it was based in a "cheap steel" era, so they will never be able to afford it.
they will have to reduce construction speed to no affect demand too much. Increasing the cost of construction and maintenance over the construction period.
(A side note. iron is really expensive right now and it is projected to stay at that level. in my country, that traditionally do not have iron mines because they are economically awful (some manage to stay afloat, and that is, like, the best case scenario), is having a boom of iron exploration and iron mine openings)
And you are not afraid that the south side facing the sun will actually reflect TWO suns in the hottest place on earth? The good thing is, it will create a case for energy production using the heat gradient of the north side...
@@jcd-k2s That's nothing, it will act as a giant wind sail in one of the windiest places on Earth. Luckily there is no chance of this happening, another Dubai failed project, but if it did the structure is completely idiotic even to ppl who have 0 engineering education.
@@rmac3217 That's also true, I was so focused on the sun part that I forgot it will channel the wind on 170 km. That is fantastically stupid. I am really ashamed of all the money poured into that stupidity. The world could be a fantastic place, but our elites prefer to suck those idiot dicks.
I think your correct. It feels like an effort to cause inflation in the USA and add it to every other terr attack they make on our country. How long will we allow other countries to use our dollar to pay for things they use against us. Babylon still reigns triumphet over the globes economy.the location of these places tells me they don't want them to be successful.. how do you get the world's tourists into the furthest isolated locations affordable and timely.
I cant imagine living in something like that, it seems like a futuristic dystopian prison where you aren't really a prisoner but you kinda still are...
Amazing to see the whole team finally :) !! Keep up with the fantastic work!
I appreciate how you brought up all the logistical, environmental, and ethical concerns of these projects. I dont want saudi to fail, but I dont see these projects being even 50% of what they promised.
This is actually taught in business school. It's called "capital destruction".
Amen
I never heard about the arrests and death sentences before. That really shocked me. Thanks for doing such in depth research and sharing that information.
Ya imagine what they will do to you if you break the law living in the line..
Dubai has tens of thousands of slaves doing their building. It's a not a fun place.
@@SolarPatrol I look forward to hearing multiple stories of the Karen arrest in tourist areas. It is Saudi Arabia
Saudi hangs gays from cranes (look it up). It would surprise me if they weren’t arresting and/or executing people over this. Their government are abject savages the way they treat their people.
That's your life on "the line" lololol
i have three massive questions though,
1, where will the food come from to feed everyone in these future cities?
2. where will the water come from because if it's just distillation then that puts more strain on question 3
3. what will their source of power even be for all this?
1- same way they've been feeding everyone in the middle of the desert .. imports
2 - same way they've been getting water everywhere else in saudi arabia .. water trucks and pipes
3 - same way they've been powering other cities + extra power projects such as solar and possibly nuclear power plant
Saudi is the world leading country in distillation, and one of the earliest NEOM projects announced is the Solar Dome distillation plant ("At an estimated $0.34/m3, the cost of producing water via “solar dome” technology will be significantly lower than desalination plants using reverse osmosis methods")
For energy, already afoot the largest Green Hydrogen energy plant ('Located in Oxagon, the NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) facility will be the largest commercial-scale green hydrogen production facility. NGHC is a joint venture of ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM. Upon completion in 2026, it is expected to produce 600 tons of carbon-free a day (1.2M tonnes of green ammonia annually); estimated annual reduction of up to 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.' But this is in addition to other renewable energy sources.)
For food, I know that they have an accelerator program for food sustainability start-ups, and are planning on ("producing an innovative food sector with a total output of over 600,000 tons by 2030, it has announced. Fruits and vegetables will be the main produced components, contributing some 325,000 tons, followed by alternative meat and dairy products with a total of 178,000 tons. Aquaculture and grains came next with production plans of 80,000 tons and 48,000 tons respectively, according to the company. For aquaculture, production mainly targets native species that live in the Red Sea waters in order to maximize local sustainability such as Yellowtail Kingfish, Great Amberjack, Orange-spotted Grouper, and Meagre. NEOM aims for a total output of 80,000 tons per year for all of these species, helping it to exceed self-sufficiency levels.")
@@HMABH Exactly, people are completely ignorant to the fact that the whole country already funtions that way for decades.
@@HMABHremind me again what’s so green about this project? Apart from its gigantic carbon footprint of course…
The Saudi population is expected to grow by ~13m people over the next 35 years (37m to 50m population), so you have to get extra food, water and utilities there anyway whether the population lives on the line or somewhere else.
It might be relatively efficient to have distribution and infrastructure in a straight line with good rail service connected to a big port?
East Africa is relatively close by sea and likely has spare agricultural capacity.
While I don't really understand why the line can't be shorter and thicker, Saudi has to build and provide something for the additional population anyway.
Comparing the build CO2 for buildings supporting 8-9m people to the annual CO2 of a fairly energy efficient, densely populated and hugely service based economy that builds ~150k homes per year doesn't really tell me much. A better comparison would be to the same infrastructure built onto existing Saudi cities and towns, or a more traditional design.
In 5 years time I will be watching urban explorer videos of this once its inevitably abandoned
Nice to see the team behind this channel. I remember subscribing to this channel when it was only at 5k subscribers. Now its almost 900k huge. Congrats.
What a great development! The channel definitely has got very professional by now
Cool to see a general overview of several projects. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next few years. Thank you for the hard work!
When the next financial crises hits or oil price collapses half of these projects will get cancelled. Saudia is just desert and oil, not really sustainable. I am not sure why they are not investing in improving lives of their existing populace instead of trying to attract rich foreigners. Feels like a disaster waiting to happen.
Seeing your face makes these videos even more engaging then they already were
Thanks a lot! 🙏
This is gonna be fun for urban explorers to throw furniture around in
I cant wait to watch abandoned explores in the unfinished, derelict Line in the future.
I like how you explore the criticisms of the projects as well as their glossy promises.
waste of resources! Killing species because of somebody's EGO!
Love your videos! ❤ They're actually informative and captivating!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I'm always amazed to see mega projects! And ancient structures! 💐
It’s a sick vision.
I love your vids...😍😍😍😍😍😍 And you have peaked my curiosity in certain megaprojects in just a few months❤❤❤❤
Being a fan of this channel since the subscriber was 50K. I'm so proud you're getting to this point 🎉
Thanks for your good work!I would love to see an video on the jeddah tower next
Already working on it! 👌
For purely selfish reasons, i can't wait to see how these crazy projects turn out, despite the fact we really don't need these at all.
1. Congrats on the growth. I see the effort and you guys deserve to grow.
2. The Line has already been debunked many times over for being an insanely inefficient design by being, well, a line, instead of a circle or similar.with a circle, one can travel from one ‘end’ to the other by crossing the middle, thus making it at least 50% more efficient. This and Dubai and are starting to feel very much like China’s ghost cities.
Waste of earth resources lets be real
the point of the line is that you dont have to travel to the other end on regular basis. a circle would not make the city much more efficient, and less space for expansion
@@jestangames you can not be serious right? lol... less efficient and especially less space for expansion... these takes are just hilarious
The problem with circular design which we see in current infrastructure are people trying to cross to different sides and traffic getting congested towards the middle cause no one wants to go all the way around. A line would solve this problem even tho yes you have to go a longer distance, it would be uninterrupted other than a few stops vs lots of traffic in the center of a circle slowing you down a lot.
@@josiahroa177 how will you get past the endless string of poop tankers that are required as arabs seem to have no idea of what "sewerage systems" are?
you think its a good idea, you are welcome to live in a country like saudi arabia. hope you like bashing women, kicking dogs, spitting at people, calling them infidels, and various other happy chappy requirements of islam.
You should make an updated video about the Jeddah Tower, since the construction has restarted.
The Line's workers' town looks more sustainable than the actual project.
This is how cities are actually built, activity precedes construction in most cases. (except maybe in China)
@@jcd-k2s Ik. Was just commenting on how unsustainable the Line project is.
Saudi Arabia has never falied in any project in the last 10 years
You're gonna look very dumb soon for doubting Saudi
I can't predict its success, but I find the experiment and project fascinating. A quick piece of advice for everyone: if you label something as bad without providing any supporting arguments, it holds little weight. To be taken seriously, it's crucial to present comprehensive reasons behind your critique.
Does the fact that people who refused to leave their homes to build this project were beheaded work for your reAsoNinG?
there is literally 0 percent chance of this actually being built
Counterpoint: if you can’t see how facially absurd this is you’re a moron
Love the coverage of NEOM! Keep up great work
I think i was born in the right time to witness the greatest failure in history.
lol 9 train stations. At 170km long, that's 19 km or 11 miles between stations. There are no roads, and no cars. Are people really going to walk 10km/5mi to get to the closest station? The original 48 stations made it 1.7km/1mi to walk to the nearest station, which is long, but workable. I'm not sure they're actually taking the construction of this thing seriously. It's going to be hilarious to see how this one pans out.
Even if any of this god forsaken NEOM project will stand finished at any point in the future, the sheer scale of how wasteful it all is hurting my brain.
Stop building stupid expensive city shit in the desert.
It's completely laughable. I feel bad for people who fall for this futuristic BS. We've already invented great ways to develop a city and infrastructure and transport. This makes no sense.
@@AndersMJustesenoh come on just because it's made by Saudi Arabia that much hate if it was on western country you guys going to cheer and clap for them and be like can't wait for this project to be finished The amount of contradiction and hypocrisy in you people astonishing 😂
@@MahmoodAlmasIf it was made in the west it wouldnt be built by slaves so yeah it'd be easier to root for
A dystopian prison city for the poor, a ski resort to host the Asian winter games and a luxury island resort for the rich. I would have rather seen a 1-2 mile high tower/city with an indoor ski resort, tropical resort, water and amusement park etc. It would have been cheaper to build and become a world wide attraction that actually interests people. Imagine an indoor ski resort winding through a mile high tower from top to bottom.
I don't think we are capable to build that high yet. Also it would just be cool for the ridiculous pomposity and shock factor. Probbly boring the third day you'd visit, nd then if you want to ski just go to a ski resort, much larger than the inside of a skyscraper. You don't need that big of a mall. It's not really useful or magical. I'd think it would be way cooler if they built some innovative ridiculous solar powered tunnel system that transports ground water to the whole country, oasis under the dunes and flying houses. Just put the money into research, get the best minds and build something you only can with that much money, not just a bigger version of something we alteady have
The MEGA in Canada is a contiguous line self contained building for the Canadian Forces Basic Training in St.Jean Quebec, I lived inside the MEGA for a year it was BANANAS, the only reason we left the building was for a smoke break or running the track.
Considering how they are putting the importance of "everything being within walking distance", it will only relate to what is in the nearest vicinity. It would take a while to even get from 3/4 to the middle of the structure. Therefore, this would create a divide between the population, classes almost - e.g. the richest being near the marina or the top. I honestly see no point in this design. As well as isolate people and limit who they meet.
Snowpiercer
@@wumbosaurus9121 exactly.
With only 9 subway stations instead of 48, we can estimate that properties around these stations would be consider good, rest in between would be like suburbs. 5-8km to nearest station.
My take:
Sindalah is genuinely not unbelievable. It will definitely be completed, and will also be a big hit.
Trojan has to be completed for the games, but I doubt it's life after the games.
The line will probably be a bit dystopian. I don't see any upper class willingly going to such a place. Saudi will probably relocate all their lower class to this place. It could also house the families of all of the workers working in the other 3 projects once complete.
The oxagon is supposed to be industrial. It does make a lot of sense to have a functioning mega port in the red sea, and it's surprising that it doesn't already exist, but I just think that the failure of the line will exhaust the money and enthusiasm for this project, and it will probably be severely downsized. In the end, a port doesn't have to look pretty. The don't need to make it a tourist spot. It just has to be functional
What do you mean? Visiting shipping ports is my favorite thing to do /sarcasm
this cant fail fast enough
Damn, they could have used a fraction of that construction effort to extend seawater into a system of rivers deep into the desert, creating new ecosystems (and marginally hindering the global rise of sea-level). They could have created all the fancy, fun shapes they wanted and still added transit and built new cities.
Not that this isn't all cool as hell if it gets even partially completed. Who's gonna live here? No idea but increasing the global housing stock, if it's sufficiently well-connected, can only have positive second-order effects.
I feel like you guys have some extra access to the information about NEOM. Like they're telling you when they're ready for people to know what they're doing. OR, you're extremely good journalists and make phenomenal content that can't be found elsewhere. Either way, I'm here for it. I absolutely love your videos, keep up the amazing work 👏 ❤️ 💙
When i first found this channel the content felt very generic and AI generated. Now it has turned into a great channel well worth subscribing to that deliveres actual new information with great visuals. Keep up the good work!
Hi Regis,, love your videos because i really learn what is happening around the world. Thank you for making videos for us to watch.
The real question should be why are they creating these locations? A solar-powered line city. A vault dug into a mountain. Are they preparing for catastrophe?
0:29 i didn't expect this tbh but, thanks a lot for regis and the whole team for creating one of exciting and entertaining all those videos. Big Respect 🎉🎉🎉🎉
It seems odd to me to question if they can pipe in water and desalinate it to create a winter resort. This is something we did in America 100 years ago. Just because we no longer take risk or have massive public works projects here doesnt mean the rest of the world is unable to do it.
The whole idea of this project is dumb. The snow resort in the desert is just to try to grab attention. The line especially is completely impractical, they literally chose the most inefficient shape to build it.
@@verumignis4778 I dunno about that. A thin line does have the advantage that it will be far cheaper and easier to keep the place cool. It's basically impossible to cool down a large open square without pumping billions into air conditioning, for example. The line as it stands will act like a deep canyon and will basically have its own microclimate inside. In that regard, it's not a bad idea. Especially in a desert - which is what the whole country essentially is.
@@verumignis4778 Who cares about it being efficient? Is the resort going to be a fun place to visit or not is the only thing that is going to decide if its succeeds. The recent western world obsession with whether or not something is the most efficient well calculated way to do something is so narrow minded its no wonder the west is failing.
Look at California.... is it efficient for 40 million people to live in a desert? No but they do because they want to and we have the means to make it happen.
NEOM seems to be the easiest possible concept able to expand. The idea of doing this in one go seems crazy to me.
I would love to see something like this completed and be successful. I'm just worried about some of these sights becoming forgotten after the Olympics. This seems to be the trend with hosting countries.
Qatar when they held the World Cup