Is DUBAI Doing Something GOOD For Once?

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[bzymek]

'Houston but worse' is the scariest combination of words I've ever seen

[pixiesnakes]

Somewhere in Dubai:
- Did he say "solar panels to provide shade" or "provide shade to solar panels"?
- I dunno. Lets go for both to be safe

[gustavgnoettgen]

"Dubai? Being fixed? Still in a desert?
May I see it?"
"No."

[karkacesub]

Well, if that big under cover bikeway does get built, it would be a lot nicer than the fucking hellscape the outdoors is there.

[SmileyDeLaSerna]

I feel like the majority of the people who comment on Dubai here haven't the slightest idea how life there actually is.
I lived there and moved back to Europe because Dubai is a hole and I'd like to clarify a couple of points.

- it's only hot there for about 4 months and what kills you is not the temperature, but the combination of the sun exposure and high humidity. In the city areas where it's less humid it can actually be quite okay in the shade in +40 Celcius. The rest of the year the temperature ranges between 20 and 26-27 degrees during the day, which is quite pleasant. Can even get quite chilly during the night. So cycling in such conditions would be more than great. I mean, in Spain summers are at times as hot as in Dubai, but nobody would complain about bike lanes there would they?
- 90% of the population are not "rich overweight millionaires" (most of those barely leave their villas outside of the city anyway), but workers from Asia, so I would assume that they would potentially be the main users of bike infrastructure, but frankly, it's a pipe dream. Most of these workers live in Deira, which is in the north and most of them go direction south which can be anywhere from 10 to 30km distance, nobody would be cycling double that daily. Besides, from my anecdotal experience, most of these workers use mini-buses for big groups of workers that takes them from their dorms to their construction site/wherever else they work.
- this sort of bycicle infrastructure still implies that there's stuff to see or to do along the way. There's none, Dubai is just a gigantic intestine like stretch of tall and not-so-tall buildings and highways, there's barely anything aside from endless shopping malls and restaurants.
- I can't imagine how much water would be necessary for sustaining all the plants along the way, let alone all the additional hotels and hospo places that they are planning to build. Water desalination is super energy intense, so I assume they'd be using a lot of natural gas to make that happen, which is obviosuly not green.

Thus said, I would really like Dubai to succeed, but I don't find it realistic. It's not sustainable to build a city around cheap Asian workers who serve the remaining 10% of white people and rich Arabs/Indians and who also on average don't stay longer than 5-10 years (who could have thought that such model is a bad idea???)

[js]

As a Prague resident, who is suicidal enough to try to cycle in Prague, I have to 100% agree with your rant about Prague...

[NotJustBikes]

6:06 I'd be willing to try that 🤔

[samuela-aegisdottir]

The authors of the project have apparently never walked by a highway. Because walking in the middle of two highways is deffinitelly what all pedestrians desire.

[greghmn]

"Prague: now worse than Dubai" isn't on my Adam Something 2024 Bingo card. FUCK.

[skipskilligan]

You know, before Oil exploration, Dubai's economy was based around, of all things, Pearls. But after the crash of '29 and the widespread development of artificial pearls, the dubai pearl industry collapsed and the sheik decided to begin oil exploration in the 1930's which expanded all the way to present day. Nothing is eternal, markets are always changing.

[atlas]

Seriously… who came up with the idea of putting solar panels on the floor??? Literally the only place where they are guaranteed to be less efficient

[evablouseblanche]

3:43

I currently work in a store full time.

we do not want a plant ceiling. in general, we don't want plants we're not selling inside the shop.

plants need maintenance, and they shed leaves and shit, and they attract insects.

they would WRECK the fruits & veggetable aisle right under them, and make the rest of the shopping experience at best unpleasant when you find yet another rotting pile of leaves hidden away in a corner between two shelves, or nudged between items you want to buy.

whoever came up with something like that has never shopped for themselves in their life and it SHOWS

[ozzyjames]

"Looks like they locked not just bikes in a basement for a week with a shitton of drugs." 🤣 Good one Adam!

[dion]

The AC in that glass tunnel would only have to go out once for it to turn into a giant solar oven that would cook everyone and everything inside.

[anthonidanowski]

yeah a bunch of overweight millionaires with 30 luxury cars are totally going to start riding their bikes everywhere. im going to get ahead of the curve and build gigantic gold plated e-bikes with massive speakers on it.

[weamibrahim]

Ah yes, the UAE, the second best country built on oil and slavery

[VIVIANJoslin]

That ManScaped ad was wild. Been a while since I watched a sponsored segment fully

[BeautifulModelBarbaraHutch-ve]

in vienna, bike lanes are no longer safe. they are clogged by food delivery e-bikes (those which dont have pedals) and the sidewalks are swarmed by e-scooters making you feel really unsafe

[GerryRR]

It's like their priority when planning is to make sure everything looks good from orbit.

[Fordtrucksale]

People cycling in Dubai heat is literally lmao