"The Line" - Saudi Arabia plans 100 mile long indoor megacity. [Neom]

[skyscraper101]

They can't even get any progress on the Jeddah Tower after like 4 years of it being put on hold. And that's just one skyscraper. This is never gonna happen.

Called it

Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion giga project The Line is decreasing in size from 105 miles to just 1.5 miles long

Developers on the Neom project in Saudi Arabia previously had very different goals in mind for 2030

www.unilad.com

 

[DotCommunist]

read the other day that the burj khalifa isn't even linked up to the sewage network. They're shipping out the piss and shit in piss and shit lorries every day. Madness.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Called it

Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion giga project The Line is decreasing in size from 105 miles to just 1.5 miles long

Developers on the Neom project in Saudi Arabia previously had very different goals in mind for 2030

www.unilad.com

I salute the optimism of characterising a 98.6% reduction in size as 'scaling back'

 

[DaveCinzano]

read the other day that the burj khalifa isn't even linked up to the sewage network. They're shipping out the piss and shit in piss and shit lorries every day. Madness.

They've cloned Tom Cruise for an army of nightsoil collectors

 

[skyscraper101]

Meanwhile, it looks like after 5 years of being put on hold, work is actually starting again on the Jeddah Tower which at least has a realistic hope of becoming the world's tallest building. 11 Years and counting though.

Jeddah Tower is back under construction after it was suddenly halted five years ago

The Jeddah Tower was anticipated to be the tallest building in the world but after construction was halted five years ago plans were thrown into disarray.

www.unilad.com

 

[Petcha]

I designed some shit for NEOM recently. First I'd heard of it. It's scary as fuck what they're planning.

Makes sense though to diversify a la the UAE. But the hypocrisy of the shit I saw they've got in mind, nightclubs, casinos etc.

edit: not read the thread but I assume it's been pointed out its also gonna be a tax haven similar to the caymans?

 

[SpookyFrank]

I salute the optimism of characterising a 98.6% reduction in size as 'scaling back'

The phrase matey boy actually used was 'extension' of other projects.

I've seen Michio Kaku, a decent physics writer I used to respect, has been plugging this shit.

 

[pogofish]

I salute the optimism of characterising a 98.6% reduction in size as 'scaling back'

Its going to be sat in a very long hole in the ground then - they have already hacked-out a 65 mile "line"-shaped scar across the landscape!

 

[kalmatthew]

read the other day that the burj khalifa isn't even linked up to the sewage network. They're shipping out the piss and shit in piss and shit lorries every day. Madness.

Why bother with expensive infrastructure when you can import cheap labour and keep the workers in poor conditions

 

[WouldBe]

I salute the optimism of characterising a 98.6% reduction in size as 'scaling back'

So more of a dot than a line then.

 

[DaveCinzano]

So more of a dot than a line then.

Every Morse message has to start somewhere

 

[WouldBe]

Every Morse message has to start somewhere

They could start with 3 short ones, then 3 longer ones and finish with another 3 short ones if they're running out of money.

 

[ska invita]

Someone needs to check that Bill Drummond hasnt integrated himself into the Saudi monarchy

 

[Rob Ray]

read the other day that the burj khalifa isn't even linked up to the sewage network. They're shipping out the piss and shit in piss and shit lorries every day. Madness.

Popular myth, based on a meme about a line of sweage trucks which did the rounds a few years back. It's a bit more complicated, as the tower does have a linked sewage system, but the rest of the city didn't, hence the trucks.

There's been some infrastructure work since, but in a twist which is probably worse than the Burj story, the entire upgrade of the system over the last decade only took citizens into account while ignoring migrant workers.

Who make up 80% of the population.

So there's still poo trucks.

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[editor]

Embarrassing: Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Architecture | The Guardian

 

[bluescreen]

Grim. Clearance of villages using lethal force

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[tim]

Grim. Clearance of villages using lethal force

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not just villages as the article mentions huge numbers of people forced to move in Jeddah with no or minimal compensation. Those who resist face being murdered, gaoled and sentenced to death.

 

[Dogsauce]

. Those who resist face being murdered, gaoled and sentenced to death.

presumably not in that order..?

 

[tommers]

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began

According to the expose by ITV, more than 21,000 workers have died since 2017 while working on Saudi Vision 2030 and NEOM.

www.archpaper.com

What the fuck?

 

[bluescreen]

And more than 100,000 'disappeared'. WTF indeed.

Here's the ITV programme referred to

https://www.itv.com/watch/kingdom-uncovered:-inside-saudi-arabia/10a5475a0001B/10a5475a0001

 

[Jeff Robinson]

What a fucking shithole. Backwards garbage dump of a country.