THE LINE in Progress - February 2024

THE LINE is a pioneering civilizational revolution that will introduce a new way of living to the world 🌍

Take a look at how the city of the future is looking, as we progress with construction at pace and scale 🏗️🚜

#TheLINE #NEOM

[quatro]

Exploring this place when it is inevitably abandoned is going to be amazing

[ludovicle]

"Millions of cubic meters of earth and water are being moved per week" and then "A sustainable city with Zero emissions". Marketing is amazing 😂

[marcnusen]

Where do you live?
THE LINE
Which street?
THE LINE

[Accius_]

The future is bright for window cleaners

[ustvtpr]

The ad looks like something we see in Sci-fi movies.
Something the hero fights against.

[karmicbreath]

I'd love to see the people behind this project openly acknowledge and respond to all the major criticisms that have come out. Particularly from Adam Something.

Kids, this is what happens when no one dares to contradict the Leader.

[super_heroes]

"I want to see and understand the world outside. To travel beyond the walls and explore what lies beyond them. I want to be free"-Attack on Titan

[Hubwood]

Yeah I'm confident there will be documentations on the workers in a few years... and they won't be positive...

[LoganTomaszeski-ruwg]

This feels like something you would build in a sandbox game that you know won’t work, but you do it anyway because it looks kind of cool.

[monsieurhender]

really excited to see the documentary in 2060 about it

"The Line : an history about failure and a delusional crown prince"

[Scott.Jones]

I suspect this will get scaled down to a resort town for the rich & powerful of Saudi Arabia, maybe a KM in length. Likely there will be shanty towns nearby where the servants & employees live.

[joy]

Architecturer designer:🤩😃👍🏼
Builder: 😵‍💫🫥
Construction workers: 💀 oh hell naa

[gunnarschaut]

What's baffling to me is the simple question how logistics will work. I mean, it should be immediately apparent: instead of building e.g. 100 km in one line, you could build 10 lines at 10 km length. The maximum distance you would have to go in the first case to get from one end of the city to the other is 100 km, in the second case it's less than 20 km (assuming that the width of the line is less than 1 km). Having no intersections seems like an optimization to traffic, but it's logistically wasteful and must lead either to big jams in the middle of the city or loads of wasted, because rarely traversed space.

[clemoun]

To the question "what would be the stupidest design for a city?", "a line" is probably in the top 2 answers

[barismok]

This happens when stupidity meets money...

[zakatana]

I've seen my share of dumb shit but this is another level

[jumpingpools]

I honestly hope it gets built, if it really happens it might be really cool

[bookshelflearn]

The projects in Saudi Arabia are a little better than Chicago, but still projects

[ChadieRahimian]

Since childhood I had always dreamed of living in a city 200 meters wide and 170 km long, just like a nice German autobahn. Can’t believe my vision of future and advancement is finally coming to life. Thanks Saudi Arabia