Exactly. It sounds like a pie in the sky idea. However, if you throw enough money at something, eventually you’ll get something done. But whether that’s actually economically viable, or implemented well is a totally different story. Years ago my friend rented a presidential suite in Sydney. It looked amazing from outside. A big open plan apartment on the top floor! But inside, if you looked closely you could see that the floors were slightly lopsided, the electrical circuit was failing in some areas, the walls were warped, the tiles were cracked and misaligned, and plumbing was terrible. You can’t fake good workmanship. You can only hope to fool people for long enough to get paid. My friend moved out after a few months.
I really struggle to imagine any of these projects either getting finished, or if they somehow do, managing to stay afloat. Dubai has already proved time and time again that a lot of these huge scale projects just aren't attractive to outside investors/residents, especially in these climates.
Dude Dubai has a massive restate industry and has literal millions of people living in it. Dubai is a massive success. Large scale projects can work if done properly. Not to say the idiotic The Line will work though.
Here is my prediction. They will complete about 20% of its full length before realizing that the initial vision has to be scaled down tremendously due to the sheer amount of cost and time it will take
I want i finished full size, so it became money sink for Saudi, imagine how much money needed for maintenance, i love watch rich people loosing money for their stupidity
I think this will be finished. I believe there is a reason this is spoken about the World Economic Forum along side 15 minute cities being tested in roam. This will be used to solve climate change by sticking the poor in a prison and the rich having the word for themselves.
Great man made structures might be stupid in the short term, but remembered in the long term. I'm sure the general population of historical Egypt didn't agree with the immense effort of the pyramids. But they are iconic today, even after the fall of the egyption empire thousands of years before.
@@rihasanatrofolo2472 Yes, but is that worth it? The inhumane amount of sacrifice necessary to build these structures and for what? A legacy to be remembered? A landmark for future generations to marvel at?
@@CrisisBlissey Sure, who cares. None of us will be around the next houndres years anyways. I agree that right now, the ethics and morals of it does matter. But thousands of years into the future, no one will care. The pyramids is probably the most diabolical use of slavery in human history but we still call it one of the seven wonders today.
"The vision is that everything is within walking distance." flash forward to "The number of subway stops has been reduced from 48 to 9". So basically, you have to walk 8.5km one way to get to a location in between stops now. This level of city planning at this early stage should paint a pretty clear picture for the urban hell that is to come.
It's very unlikely building another 31 stops is too expensive when they are still planning to build 150km of building. If I had to guess, it's just straight-up scope creep, as the subway will have to be one of the first things laid out, so it's one of the first things being addressed. That said, if this is happening with some of the first elements of the build, just wait until they start construction. 150km reduced to 100km reduced to 50km reduced to an abandoned project? Who knows.@@nohlanfisherman5185
@@liberallarry847 I think there's meant to be no roads except for maybe maintenance access, as it's meant to be a people-first, walkable city. Can't be having car exhaust pumping in an enclosed space.
Yup I agree!!! Like I said in an earlier comment, the plan sounds good on paper but in reality it just won't work!🤷🏾♂️ it's good to have big goals don't get me wrong, but some things just aren't possible...
Yeah. Having a so-called "walkable city" (now only) 120 km long with only 9 stations? Doesnt bode well at all. Folks dont walk - or carry their furniture/luggage/groceries - 6 km´s one way. Good public transportation tries have stations within 0.5 km of population centers to be useful, less preferred. Even 43 was too few for that, 9 is ridiculous. This sounded like a pipe dream from the first animation - the more is revealed and the more we see of the progress, the more it sounds like a useless, nay stupid money pit. Ski resort in one of the hottest places on earth 🙄, desalinaton for 3-5 million people. They will probably forget basic plumbing too, like Burj Califa.
We've had the ability to make cities in straight lines from the very beginning, and didn't for good reasons. It's artificially crowded and limits mobility--which are enough issues already, without even needing to think up minor disasters.
The idea of the suburb is supposed to put what you need as close as possible, grocery store, school, shopping district etc, then the same old scenery gets boring. The simple fact we have a curious brain makes the 'walkable city' unappealing.
My favourite part is how they are building AWAY from the water, 150km into a stretch of empty, sun scorched desert when they could have easily built the entire city around the water... you know, where people typically want to live.
@@rowanmelton7643 Last time I checked Europeans still use vehicles. But if you are referring to Copenhagen for it's bicycle culture, the city is also densely populated over a tiny area, while the average American urban city is spread out over 10x the area or more.
Minimalist plan (*just a thought exercise): 1. Build 1km (length) of The Line’s towers/structures at each of the 9 transit stops, but with just 1 tower & not 2. Substitute the second southernmost tower with a 100m tall x 1km length solar energy collector panel. This preserves the middle area as seen in the artists conceptions. 2. Skip Trojena: ski areas with borderline freezing temperatures just don’t work. Just ask any of the USA’s southernmost ski areas about their struggles in the warm years. 3. Sindalah and Hidden Marina are most likely to be the success stories. The Line might then work as a suburb and transit system for them.
lol building the line in sections seems entirely too reasonable. Maybe when you have god level cash flow you don't even consider anything less than what you want
Are they ready for when the towers fall in the day of the Lord throughout the whole earth. [Isa 30:25-26 KJV] 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. I'm looking forward to the new city that will be 1500 miles high on the new earth in the new heaven full of people that love each other and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Will you be there? [Rev 21:1-2 KJV] 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Continue reading Revelation 21 for details.
I thought this was already debunked. The buildup of Sand alone would render it unusuable, not to mention massive heat. Just because it's a big project doesn't mean it can't fail. Think of the Hyperloop, solar powered roadways and the entire EV market. Pretty much anything invented by Elon Musk is doomed to fail.
All these projects are just madness madness madness... imagine what amazing and ACTUALLY sustainable things could be done with all that money, effort and workpower
but that would require building places people actually want to live in, and that's just now what these are for. they're just stupidly envisioned ideas by wealthy people who just wanna throw money at something so that other wealthy people will throw even more money at it. just look at NYC and its billionaire skyscrapers. they're all just investments. nothing needs to work as they say it will. it just needs to be flashy.
Right? Imagine all the environmental projects they could create, or all that money going into parts of healthcare or science. But nah fuck it let's build some giant city for neoliberal post-capitalist corporate greed profit.
I'm no expert but I just want to see how these projects actually look if they're ever finished, compared to the renders. The renders all look insane and futuristic but I imagine it just isn't practical and engineers will force it to become far more blocky, boring and dystopian looking. In particular trojena, the bit cut out of the mountain.
Yeah just look at all those islands made of concrete and sand that never completed. Upside is that in the future people will have great spooky exploration locations to discover
Suprising to see a lot of video essayist now started to come out and reveal their face. I guess that's the effect of AI for you. With that being said, glad to know this video was voice and directed by real peoples. Not like the commonplace AI driven content like bunch of AI channel out there. Great stuff and definitely would like to have more update on the most outlandish project made in the world out there!
My only complaint is that using a straight line maximizes travel time. There's a reason why most cities are vaguely circle-like. Construction will cease somewhere around the time when they discover that the there's no reason to build the widget factory 500 miles west when you can just build it to the left a bit.
Actually it minimises travel time. Straight lines are the shortest distance between two points and this city will have state of the art underground transport. Edit: OK they scaled down the underground transport a bit, but it should still be very fast
It has lasted for 2 years. But that's because they are rich enough to keep a lie for quite some time. But it won't be what people are dreaming it to be.
One thing I can say pretty confidently is these futuristic type of mega builds generally don't turnout to be how they invisioned them. I think it's a cool idea but is very impractical to build such a large structure. Not to mention they have several projects going on at once. Let's just take a look at the Abu Dhabi islands project that still to this day isn't complete. Even with a large portion of it done, it doesn't generate the money they thought it would. I cannot imagine anyone really wanting to live inside a wall that stretches for miles upon miles. Such a thing continues to build on an ever growing dystopian society. That's pretty much how these things go, royalty wants something done, so they put billions of dollars into it. Then it's either never completed or started. Doesn't really benefit the areas population. In fact it makes it harder to live in the area. Like the guy said, the carbon footprint is disgustingly massive! Personally I think not telling royalty no, often results in a bad ending. The reality of it is no matter what happens we don't live in a movie. There isn't going to be this perfect utopian society! That is the main reason I think this is a bad idea!
Nobody wants to live in Saudi Arabia period, it’s a hot desert with a dictatorship government that has a history of gross violations of human rights. Khashoggi is one of the cases that comes to mind in particular.
the entire prospect of royalty is the problem here. in this day and age there should not be families lourding over everyone else because they are the richest its just backwards as fuck. but then again thats saudi arabia in a nutshell. backwards ass people believeing in nonsensical fairytales about a pedophile...
It’s interesting that “The Line” will essentially be a 15 minute city and my guess it will be inhabited by the lower classes while Trojans, Sindalah and Oxagon are luxury destinations for the very, very wealthy. Also, The Line is being sold as a climate friendly space while the other spots are full of airports and marinas for mega yachts.
The Line is literally the 15-minutes conspiracy given life. The feverdream of a tyrant. The other projects aren't much better. All of them are built to make them easy to keep under control.
i would agree but bugs exist. I would be in heaven every day if the ecosystem could work without them. im talking ALL bugs, bees, mosquitos, worms, spiders, everything.
You do know without those bugs the world wouldn't work right. Those are keystone species that allow the natural food cycle to work. And have you ever seen the bee movie, without bees there is no pollination. Be happy bugs exist lmao @@dr.chimpanz.1324
I'm somewhat confident that they will finish those projects at least in a comparable scope as they planned to. However I'm just very sceptical that these structures/cities will be used. You can create what you want, but you can't force anyone to use what you've created. How can they have so much confidence that enough people will want this? Did they calculate the massive extra budget for incentivizing people to live there? What's the plan?
They'll send refugees to them from conflicts they create for profit. Can already see it coming a mile off. Build these cities, encourage the people who moved to the first world countries via immigration to go cities like the line and then leave them there and let them fall into disrepair. Alternatively, all the elites will migrate there and live out their weird micromanaged future just on themselves lmao
The plan is, probably, to stole bunch of money. Classic scheme, announce a mega project for the sake/glory of your country, steal 1/3 (or more) of the money, then cancel whole deal.
@@Defort-jd8xe I'm with teed on this one. Somewhat confident. When the entire budget comes from your own money, you tend to finish it, by hook or by crook. Look at Bangladesh's Padma Bridge for example. For Saudi Arabia, money isn't a problem at all. Projects get abandoned mostly due to funding issue especially when investors pull out, which is of no concern to NEOM. The concern really is whether people want to live here or not. For all we know, it might turn into a ghost city like those in China.
Yeah, they have insane impacts. Making a giant wall through an environment doesn’t exactly help species. Especially one that reflects heat back to the surrounding environment.
I have low expectations for a lot of them. With tight deadlines there is messy cutting edges. I know their construction isn't near the same as over here in Latvia (taking 10 years to do a tiny bit of progress) but I know that construction is construction. And tight deadlines mean worse quality work and unsafe buildings.
Top Luxury face reveal is the biggest luxury we're getting! Thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in over the years! Always happy seeing a new video!
I dont understand these comments, is him talking about it in a bad way gonna change anything? Like it changed when they got mad about the sand island? At this point just be happy and excited about how cool a construction like this would look and how big of an achievement it would be, cuz the only way for them to stop is if they dont have enough funds 😂
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg There is a metro and all the supplies you need, 5 minutes away from you. Are you really such a failure? Wait and you will see the future in Saudi Arabia, haha.
Wow! I feel sick just thinking about this disgusting scar across the face of the planet. I cannot imagine living in such a claustrophobic monstrosity. Round and round we go in this cycle, never learning, never stopping to think.
Can’t believe so few people can actually see what’s down the road.. these guys will be queuing up for a ‘handy’ microchip in their brains. You can count me out, thank you very much.. people need to wake up or mankind is doomed.. 🙈
all the construction, transportation of materials, manpower, food, water and so on in the desert. Also creating the steel and all other building materials sure is gonna make a great emission free city:)
@@shahad7257 are you from Saudi Arabia? Can you talk how these projects are seen there? Does people even know about them, like talk about them daily, or casually?
@@Cuestrupaster i think it's mostly westeners being so in awe about all that. if you check for example, how quickly megacities appeared in china over just the past 25 years, that's not really that out of scope. europe and america are almsot at a development and civilization level standstill, or maybe already starting decay.
@@Cuestrupaster filling in for my fellow Saudi citizen, yes, we are fully aware of these projects and most importantly, we believe and trust our leadership. Another important thing, people outside our nation may think these are built for them and attract them but hell no, I'm preparing, planning and building a lifestyle from now so that when the time comes and these cities are ready to live in, I want to be first in line there. Call it delusion or whatever, and I'm not in a place to talk about feasibility but I again, we fully believe that it's happening and will become a reality one day and I guess we'll all see it unfold.
@@thecursed01in China 60 % of buildings would meet the EU requirements for being classified as “at risk of collapse”. None of the Chinese megacities will last. I was on a business trip in China recently and in my hotel I could literally break chunks out of the wall with my hand. Not only in my room but in the entire hotel. There are clips of stuff like that on RU-vid. Chinese cities are really what you can decaying.
I only found out about this project after meeting an engineer who is working on it in late Jan 2024. I'm absolutely blown away this has come so far with little fanfare. It will be interesting to see how far they progress in the next five years. I love your content and have just subscribed. Keep up the good work.
And look at our cities??? It's like you people are honestly slow in the head. Go to any major city and try to go to your buddy's house 10 miles away. It will take you so ridiculously long. Now imagine if everyone lived in a straight line with bullet trains going up and down the line.
Thank you for covering both the human rights and carbon emissions issues with this. These projects as incredible as they are, are often built by foreign workers who are treated terribly.
Heyyy i live in saudi arabia and just to cleae up details, the carbon emissions will be wayyy lower than what people think i know a woman that works for them and she told me its green cement theyre gonna use and more sustainable construction techniques! Also human rights here are perfect tbh 10 years ago it was horrible but rn everyone is respected and free!! Also foreign workers in NEOM are treated well, they have a whole city for them with swimming pools, tennis courts and starbucks😭😭 yeaa
@@itsonlyxmabloxburg perfect human rights for ten years? Just five years ago Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in an embassy in Turkey. Does that not count? Just last year 81 men were executed on a single day (12 March). Also last year Salma al-Shehab a student studying in the UK was sentenced to 34 years in prison for Twitter posts. Should I continue? (Also it’s great they’re using green cement, that should become the international standard)
Foreign workers are aholes, this is one of the few points I like about the gulf countries, a Foreign worker stays a Foreign worker, finish his contract, get paid and then leaves unlike European Union or north America, now foreigners are ruling over natives.
I appreciate how you brought up all the logistical, environmental, and ethical concerns of these projects. I dont want saudi to fail, but I dont see these projects being even 50% of what they promised.
I can see 200 years from now you'll have this dyspotian city where everything is always eerily pleasant, family friendly and security would be extremely tight...and the outside would be known as something like the void where people wouldnt dare venture. Beyond the walls would be like the wild west and home to the type of people you'd see in the max max movies...
I believe they will have to offer financial incentives for the Saudi people to relocate to 'The Line' - There are still many Families with Elders who remember living nomadic lifestyles as Desert dwellers. A truly remarkable amount of changes in The Kingdom since the 1970's
1. Congrats on the growth. I see the effort and you guys deserve to grow. 2. The Line has already been debunked many times over for being an insanely inefficient design by being, well, a line, instead of a circle or similar.with a circle, one can travel from one ‘end’ to the other by crossing the middle, thus making it at least 50% more efficient. This and Dubai and are starting to feel very much like China’s ghost cities.
the point of the line is that you dont have to travel to the other end on regular basis. a circle would not make the city much more efficient, and less space for expansion
The problem with circular design which we see in current infrastructure are people trying to cross to different sides and traffic getting congested towards the middle cause no one wants to go all the way around. A line would solve this problem even tho yes you have to go a longer distance, it would be uninterrupted other than a few stops vs lots of traffic in the center of a circle slowing you down a lot.
@@josiahroa177 how will you get past the endless string of poop tankers that are required as arabs seem to have no idea of what "sewerage systems" are? you think its a good idea, you are welcome to live in a country like saudi arabia. hope you like bashing women, kicking dogs, spitting at people, calling them infidels, and various other happy chappy requirements of islam.
When the next financial crises hits or oil price collapses half of these projects will get cancelled. Saudia is just desert and oil, not really sustainable. I am not sure why they are not investing in improving lives of their existing populace instead of trying to attract rich foreigners. Feels like a disaster waiting to happen.
This is what happens when a monarch has some fever dream visions and every architect, engineer or cost calculator is to afraid to tell him that it wont work. Or they all are happy as long as the money keeps flowing and will run to the nearest airport as soon as reality catches up to the visions.
Nice video. This massive construction has some amazing time frames. It would be nice to see the finished construction, but realistically it's a very difficult task. What's the main purpose? It looks like a panic attack to find a replacement for their oil revenue. To turn a desert into a tourist attraction is not an easy job. When Las Vegas was created it was surrounded around major nearby States such as Arizona and California. This NEOM project is actually in the middle of nowhere.
Nice to see the team behind this channel. I remember subscribing to this channel when it was only at 5k subscribers. Now its almost 900k huge. Congrats.
I love that there is now a face to this channel. It’s kinda weird, but your voice feels a bit robotic sometimes. Putting a face to it really makes it feel like a more genuine deep dive coming from an actual person. Please continue this in the future!
I never heard about the arrests and death sentences before. That really shocked me. Thanks for doing such in depth research and sharing that information.
Saudi hangs gays from cranes (look it up). It would surprise me if they weren’t arresting and/or executing people over this. Their government are abject savages the way they treat their people.
My concern about this project isn’t whether it’s viable. It’s that to make two 500 meter tall skyscraper walls extending 175 *kilometers*, it’s going to take approximately a year’s worth of the *entire global supply of steel*. Global steel prices in the years will be severely impacted if this project continues as planned.
that would mean that the steel industry, well before out of stock, will rise prices to insane level to reduce the demand pressure. To build the line you would have to export/import it so the price will be leverage too. this will mean that the cost of steel for the line would be even worse and the prices used to calculate the cost of it was based in a "cheap steel" era, so they will never be able to afford it. they will have to reduce construction speed to no affect demand too much. Increasing the cost of construction and maintenance over the construction period. (A side note. iron is really expensive right now and it is projected to stay at that level. in my country, that traditionally do not have iron mines because they are economically awful (some manage to stay afloat, and that is, like, the best case scenario), is having a boom of iron exploration and iron mine openings)
And you are not afraid that the south side facing the sun will actually reflect TWO suns in the hottest place on earth? The good thing is, it will create a case for energy production using the heat gradient of the north side...
@@jcd-k2s That's nothing, it will act as a giant wind sail in one of the windiest places on Earth. Luckily there is no chance of this happening, another Dubai failed project, but if it did the structure is completely idiotic even to ppl who have 0 engineering education.
@@rmac3217 That's also true, I was so focused on the sun part that I forgot it will channel the wind on 170 km. That is fantastically stupid. I am really ashamed of all the money poured into that stupidity. The world could be a fantastic place, but our elites prefer to suck those idiot dicks.
I think your correct. It feels like an effort to cause inflation in the USA and add it to every other terr attack they make on our country. How long will we allow other countries to use our dollar to pay for things they use against us. Babylon still reigns triumphet over the globes economy.the location of these places tells me they don't want them to be successful.. how do you get the world's tourists into the furthest isolated locations affordable and timely.
I would love to see something like this completed and be successful. I'm just worried about some of these sights becoming forgotten after the Olympics. This seems to be the trend with hosting countries.
i expect very little from generic mass appeasing channels named like yours but i was dead wrong You don't rival B1M or megaprojects by that Simon fella and certainly not tv grade documentaries but you guys went quite in depth giving out a lot more than cursory information Well done, i will subscribe
You mention Human Rights, the line project is actually part of the concept of 15-minute cities. Movement restrictions for residents, to closed complexes. Not everything is rosy.
@@lionelrumpf744 At the moment you can still move relatively freely. But unfortunately in the future 15 minute cities will be the places you cannot leave, or leave only if your carbon footprint wants the government. This too within a time limit, and frequency. Explore, and wake up.
The MEGA in Canada is a contiguous line self contained building for the Canadian Forces Basic Training in St.Jean Quebec, I lived inside the MEGA for a year it was BANANAS, the only reason we left the building was for a smoke break or running the track.
Considering how they are putting the importance of "everything being within walking distance", it will only relate to what is in the nearest vicinity. It would take a while to even get from 3/4 to the middle of the structure. Therefore, this would create a divide between the population, classes almost - e.g. the richest being near the marina or the top. I honestly see no point in this design. As well as isolate people and limit who they meet.
With only 9 subway stations instead of 48, we can estimate that properties around these stations would be consider good, rest in between would be like suburbs. 5-8km to nearest station.
Overall, this is a highly informative and enjoyable video for anyone interested in engineering. It showcases your talent and expertise while providing valuable insights and inspiration to fellow enthusiasts. Keep up the great work, and I look forward to watching more of your content in the future 👍👍👍
Lol, the video is the only part of this whole thing that will likely ever be completed!! 😹😹😹I just read 15 comments & this is the first positive one, just not specifically positive about the buildings 😹
0:29 i didn't expect this tbh but, thanks a lot for regis and the whole team for creating one of exciting and entertaining all those videos. Big Respect 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I feel like you guys have some extra access to the information about NEOM. Like they're telling you when they're ready for people to know what they're doing. OR, you're extremely good journalists and make phenomenal content that can't be found elsewhere. Either way, I'm here for it. I absolutely love your videos, keep up the amazing work 👏 ❤️ 💙
i have three massive questions though, 1, where will the food come from to feed everyone in these future cities? 2. where will the water come from because if it's just distillation then that puts more strain on question 3 3. what will their source of power even be for all this?
1- same way they've been feeding everyone in the middle of the desert .. imports 2 - same way they've been getting water everywhere else in saudi arabia .. water trucks and pipes 3 - same way they've been powering other cities + extra power projects such as solar and possibly nuclear power plant
Saudi is the world leading country in distillation, and one of the earliest NEOM projects announced is the Solar Dome distillation plant ("At an estimated $0.34/m3, the cost of producing water via “solar dome” technology will be significantly lower than desalination plants using reverse osmosis methods") For energy, already afoot the largest Green Hydrogen energy plant ('Located in Oxagon, the NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) facility will be the largest commercial-scale green hydrogen production facility. NGHC is a joint venture of ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM. Upon completion in 2026, it is expected to produce 600 tons of carbon-free a day (1.2M tonnes of green ammonia annually); estimated annual reduction of up to 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.' But this is in addition to other renewable energy sources.) For food, I know that they have an accelerator program for food sustainability start-ups, and are planning on ("producing an innovative food sector with a total output of over 600,000 tons by 2030, it has announced. Fruits and vegetables will be the main produced components, contributing some 325,000 tons, followed by alternative meat and dairy products with a total of 178,000 tons. Aquaculture and grains came next with production plans of 80,000 tons and 48,000 tons respectively, according to the company. For aquaculture, production mainly targets native species that live in the Red Sea waters in order to maximize local sustainability such as Yellowtail Kingfish, Great Amberjack, Orange-spotted Grouper, and Meagre. NEOM aims for a total output of 80,000 tons per year for all of these species, helping it to exceed self-sufficiency levels.")
The Saudi population is expected to grow by ~13m people over the next 35 years (37m to 50m population), so you have to get extra food, water and utilities there anyway whether the population lives on the line or somewhere else. It might be relatively efficient to have distribution and infrastructure in a straight line with good rail service connected to a big port? East Africa is relatively close by sea and likely has spare agricultural capacity. While I don't really understand why the line can't be shorter and thicker, Saudi has to build and provide something for the additional population anyway. Comparing the build CO2 for buildings supporting 8-9m people to the annual CO2 of a fairly energy efficient, densely populated and hugely service based economy that builds ~150k homes per year doesn't really tell me much. A better comparison would be to the same infrastructure built onto existing Saudi cities and towns, or a more traditional design.
Thank you. Extremely well produced and presented. As you know well, sadly none of us have much time to spend watching RU-vid so it's delightful that the information is condensed and fast paced. With a light and easy going, yet insightful, considered and ultra informative presentation style. Just right. I guess what I, and most viewers are looking for is to be kept intelligently informed with up-to-date projects in the world, and yet at the same time be relaxed and entertained. So, really brilliant. Thank you again.
Real journalism would consists in interviewing the workers or the architects, visiting the site, getting real pictures. This is just information found on the Internet, illustrated with images found on the Internet.
My take: Sindalah is genuinely not unbelievable. It will definitely be completed, and will also be a big hit. Trojan has to be completed for the games, but I doubt it's life after the games. The line will probably be a bit dystopian. I don't see any upper class willingly going to such a place. Saudi will probably relocate all their lower class to this place. It could also house the families of all of the workers working in the other 3 projects once complete. The oxagon is supposed to be industrial. It does make a lot of sense to have a functioning mega port in the red sea, and it's surprising that it doesn't already exist, but I just think that the failure of the line will exhaust the money and enthusiasm for this project, and it will probably be severely downsized. In the end, a port doesn't have to look pretty. The don't need to make it a tourist spot. It just has to be functional
I love how that reveal was just the most casual thing ever, at first I didn't even react at first, but than it hit me. Good to have you Regis and thank you for the lovely content you have made for all these years!
I can't predict its success, but I find the experiment and project fascinating. A quick piece of advice for everyone: if you label something as bad without providing any supporting arguments, it holds little weight. To be taken seriously, it's crucial to present comprehensive reasons behind your critique.
As a Civil Estimator, I would love to be able to see the plans for this. If they're already excavating and putting pilings in, then there has to be plans made already.
@@MyIndia1 Supposed to be Green? What effect does a 100km long 1500 ft tall structure have on the environment? Air currents alone will drastically change. How many floods and droughts will that structure cause? Everything about the project shows the sales people don't know JACK about what they speak of!
I cant imagine living in something like that, it seems like a futuristic dystopian prison where you aren't really a prisoner but you kinda still are...
