End of The Line? Why Saudi Arabia's Linear City Isn't Working 

with continuous 1G acceleration / 1G negative acceleration between 82 stops, and an optimistically short 15 seconds motionless per stop, it should take 2.4 hours to traverse the full 170km line.

The line will revolutionize making any two parts of the city as far apart as possible! How are we going to get to our sci-fi dystopian future without building things like this?

On the plus side, they could turn it into an abandoned site for those weirdos who like to explore abandoned places

How gullible are these people to believe this sales pitch? When they said the travel time was 20 minutes, my very first thought was what about all the stops? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist, you just need to have common sense.

All i see is a giant prison

I’d love to see the floorplans and elevations for this project along with all the plumbing and electrical plans and air-conditioning and saltwater desalinization

This is what happens when those greedy investors trust incompetent people which just happens to have a ton of money & absolute power over a country.

When your concept cannot survive napkin math, it's doomed.

At this point, it's easier to live on a moving train

A high class version of 20 minute cities - it won't take off except for a tourist destination

Thing is, the video mentions the potential fudge factor of turning it into a circle(which sounds like the dumbest idea as that is already basically just a city - except with a wall!) But surely ditching the full circle potential fudge factor, and instead combining that with the line idea itself so that you have tram lines built atop eachother in the hollow middle -best of both worlds! That way there is a better organisation of the projected 86 stations required 🤔

More people packed, closely tight together means higher chance and risk of spreading diseases.

It's not working because it';s a stupid techbro fantasy project.

About the trains: A possible solution is to make small autonomously driven capsules. Scenario: You enter a station, take a capsule (4 to 6 peoples max let say, in a capsule) which departs each minute or so once there is one passenger aboard. Assign the few destinations, and have the capsule taking the express way (like the bus ... of a computer) and drop the passenger(s) exactly where they are expected. No need to stop to each and every intermediate stations. Note that getting in or out a station is in a "parallel" path to the "bus" and thus, does not "jam" the high speed capsules on the said buss. Add yes, there is no need to visit each intermediate station to "take waiting passengers", these passengers in waiting ... just take their own capsule, as they walk in the station. And voila, high speed trains, or capsules, not needing a driver per capsule since they are autonomously driven with the appropriate electronic.

Nimrod Syndrome. Human being trying to pack and cement people in one place….

I remember when the Fyre festival came out and a shit load of advertisement blitz came out on facebook and social media. This was before it all went tits up but the advertisement with the models and the footage was amazing and grabbed your attention. Ultimately it came to nothing. I feel that this project in Saudi is going the same way but with money and funds Fyre only wish they had. The amount of steel needed to create even the scaled down version will keep a lot of steel mills in peak production for several years on that one project alone. Forget about any other construction or back orders around the world. The amount of floor space taken up by the elevators alone will be utterly impractical. Even those two challenges feels like this will ultimately not get built. Good luck if they can but they've bit of more then can chew on this project.

Great video.

I shall keep my eyes on the line.

Greenwashing. Sustainable concepts used in an unsustainable way that does not consider its enviro impact. Sustainable development has 3 fundamental principles - enviro sensitivity - economic soundness - social justice So far this project is failing on all 3 principles!

I dont think The Saudi prince is a engineer or a construction developer soooo... ya good luck bro lol

I thought they said they proposed 9 million people.

Why didn't they make it modular. Build 100m long blocks at a time

MBS's plans for THE LINE, KHASHOGGI and YEMEN have one thing in common; they all resulted in victims and they were all a major bust.

😱 fear scare afraid panic fright creepy

Who would or could live in such an environment? Ahh, someone from Portland or Seattle. Not that personal space would be a problem and what if you wanted out? SOL

the issue is multifaceted, but it seems at the core it's simply a pipedream meets reality. I like the concept but for a revolutionary city to really work, you need more civil engineers than fantastical architects, and this is what happens when you don't do that. A futuristic city would be like the concept of if you could remodel New York city from scratch, to optimize everything into the most harmoniously functional city, rectifying all its many mistakes and short comings over the many decades, fixing all its infrastructural flaws, all those faults that are too expensive to fix so they find workaround methods instead of permanent solutions, or cheaper options because they couldn't afford the better ones... so if you could hypothetically redo it all, and had an infinite money glitch to make it better than what it is, what would it be, what would it look like, what kind of metropolis would it become? well that's what a futuristic city ought to be. That, is not what's the line, the line is an impractical fantasy built on dreams and too much money blinding the rich from the practical... and now they're realizing how foolish it was.

Mathematically...This project is stupid and lack of caveman logic

people has no creativy and engineering skill talk about engineering.

lol

This video id Paid propaganda. They'll get it done. Then everyone will make vids showing the line. Trust me.

I hope it fails, the insanity project of building the worlds biggest jail...

what a cool grift.

Why do we need to live in a line leaving the vast God created beautiful world?

The Lie

How are the fake island projects doing? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

All the calculations for the figures in the brochure must have been done on the back of a beer mat 🎉

You would think you would start with a smaller scale to see if would work.

JUST FOR SAUDIS. 😅