Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long.
The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.
The Saudi government had hoped to have 1.5M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report. It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
Lucky for them. The UAE is utterly incompetent at sewage and garbage. Pretty sure it’s because everyone running the stuff over there is either a relative of someone important or someone imported who wants to be seen as impressive.
Drown you in paperwork
Demand the most expensive version of everything since the most expensive one is better in their mind.
More paperwork
Demand you follow some weird standards that seem to be a mixture of old UK and lord only knows what
Finally they agree to the project and they demand a discount
More paperwork
Demand to see entire system in operation remotely.
Tell you they aren’t ready and are willing to pay for storage
Wait five years and finally turn it on.