Why Saudi Arabia is building a 170km line city through the desert | FT

A car-free, carbon-free city the size of Belgium, built in a straight line through a remote part of Saudi Arabia is MBS's grand plan. Will it succeed? The FT's Andrew England explores the crown prince's pet project.
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[@camicus-3249]

I guess they've... *Drawn a line in the sand*

[@seasesh4073]

@@moataz989 its a joke jesus calm down

[@TobyBanci]

😂

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Seriously why it is a line? It is just extremely weird and inefficient way of building a city. So it looks like main reason for the project attracting attention exactly same as the world islands from UAE which became a HUGE failure in every way. And while they are committing many crimes from murder to torture and having absolutely no care about people i think claiming MBS is actually doing something right in ''macro level'' is just wicked...

[@sko1beer]

@@ggoddkkiller1342 step into the tunnel its just like an embassy

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@thisisntsergio1352]

When she said "it's too one dimensional" I felt that

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

Being raised and praised as a "prince" - whatever that means in the 21st century - must be one dimensional. I wouldn't say it resembles so much Napoleon's plans for Paris. It looks more like Pharaoh's distorted perception of what progress means.

[@cybercrime841]

You know who attacked your last jujhigh respected leader Clinton

[@thisisntsergio1352]

@@cybercrime841 Sorry, your sentence was so bad I couldn't actually read it lol.

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Seriously why it is a line? It is just extremely weird and inefficient way of building a city. So it looks like main reason for the project attracting attention exactly same as the world islands from UAE which became a HUGE failure in every way. And while they are committing many crimes from murder to torture and having absolutely no care about people i think claiming MBS is actually doing something right in ''macro level'' is just wicked...

[@arabesque7787]

Suicide rate in that city will be skyrocketing.

[@traceyodonoghue978]

Its their country let them build what they like

[@traceyodonoghue978]

@The M Network so agree mbs is young and yes he might have ideas but he does say the young population need to work but yes lets see how it goes but all these things take years to come together

[@MsHarunaMoon]

@The M Network Who is wealthy again? Most Saudis live paycheck to paycheck and live quite humbely yes there's a small precentage who are wealthy but clearly a not that big of portion of the public. Surely all that wealth should've cater better for the general public instead of the wealthy no?

[@Vrtpnwr]

But 'THEY' aren't building it themselves. It's going to be funded by international investors.

[@4everHawii]

Thank you ..

[@4everHawii]

@@MsHarunaMoon says who ?? I'm a Saudi guy and your statement is very incorrect .. you may wanna have a look at the street and see how many expensive cars there .. yeah ,, paycheck to paycheck indeed lol 😂

[@alphaomikron4008]

So? WHY is Saudi Arabia building this city? This video is pointless.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@Nawa11YT]

This video is just propaganda

[@arway4766]

because Saudi's income has always been oil and will continue to be oil for the next 90 years until the oil runs out. but as far as I know, these "mega projects" and projects like neom themselves are alternatives to burning fossil fuels for energy. Since sustainability and green energy is now our main focus. Neom is a vision of a future that would run on lasting environment-friendly methods of energy and sustainable life in general. I hope this answered your question.

[@Nawa11YT]

@Alien on my own Planet Have you seen the way they talk about the Crown prince? Have you seen the way they talk about "Female activists" and Jamal Kashoggy ? that is what I call Pure propaganda. This video focused on Political subjects not the line.

[@Nawa11YT]

@Alien on my own Planet I don't know man, 500 Billion isn't a thing you throw down the Drain For "Political" Reasons. Unless there is a Magnificently Gigantic Benefit for you in return. Which is something I highly doubt. Plus can you Explain to me, from your perspective, what do the issues shown in this video do with the line project?

[@Osman-bu1vz]

coming form someone who lives in London, all I can imagine is how easy and convenient transport will be.

[@alfiand9269]

Yea, and cheaper to build its infrastructure

[@Osman-bu1vz]

@@zky10 quite the opposite. There won’t be any junctions or roads crossing each other. People will only need to go on a straight line to get where they need to.

[@Osman-bu1vz]

@@zky10 cars will not need to stop for other cars meaning traffic can move forward continuously like a motorway

[@Osman-bu1vz]

@@zky10 taking public transport like a train couldnt be easier. There would only be a one dimensional map you have to look at. Makes it easy to know where you need to go and how long it will take you. Look at the underground Map for London. Most confusing thing you’ll ever see

[@craig5261]

@@Osman-bu1vz the tube is the best transport system in human history

[@TomJ_3]

"Honey I'm just popping to the shops for some milk" *A 340km round trip later....* 🥛

[@TomJ_3]

@Chill Toad Think you missed my point mate

[@SILVERSTRIPE_]

🤔🤔🤣🤣

[@MARILYNANDERSON88]

In my Lucid luxury car at 175 km/hr.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@just_osaid]

Don't worry, they'll send drone to get you milk 😂

[@astrazenica7783]

If you have to build a city in the desert, make it as thin as possible so the sand can reclaim it in a few years

[@maryamalgaw2407]

Y’all know it’s not going to be thin lol that’s just the image but it’s huge

[@AdaptivePhenix]

"We will demonstrate our ingenuity to the world...we will build an entire city with no traffic lights and no roundabouts! And where my self-driving car won't crash 😁"

[@mcfcguvnors]

only the states can licence that much hydrogen - its illegal to make that quantity

[@watvid1]

Put a dome around it

[@youtubebram4393]

@@mcfcguvnors who made that law?

[@aslave.9433]

In india we start to build new toilets. At That time in saudi arabia they convert desert to new township.

[@abhi565b]

So according to you Saudi Aramco is investing $75 billion in India on toilets? You must be watching too much BBC and CNN.

[@aslave.9433]

@@abhi565b no its facts brother... dark side of our india... thats why we always stuck in 3rd world country.

[@hcthcissss502]

The problem is that... there is too many Indians 😅

[@abhi565b]

@@aslave.9433 So 5th largest economy in the world is a 3rd world country!! What a brainwashed guy you are.

[@aslave.9433]

@@abhi565bdude,iam not brainwashed, iam living in india.so i know whats is the situation of our country.

[@suntzu1409]

To move away from oil Save 13 minutes of your life

[@lockeandrand]

Most underrated comment here haha

[@oozorakyou]

thanks, now i can continue my lunch

[@sasanabl8694]

Reading the title of the video was expecting to learn some economic points about this city, not being fed yours and your kind of political views.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@kp5602]

@@143mathematics this project has existed before Jamal Khashoggi

[@arway4766]

Watch other videos on neom (preferably from the official channel itself), since a lot of people just want to spill their political views wherever they can when it has nothing to do with the video. And Neom is a vision of a future that would run on lasting environment-friendly methods of energy and sustainable life in general. I hope this answered your question.

[@polyvalent603]

Perhaps that is the point of this video ..... what is the rational underpinning this vast use of funds .... it is definitely NOT economically driven is it?

[@kp5602]

@@jackred2362 "The prince is a political figure" The prince is an executive state leader Executive state leaders handle economic matters‚ political matters‚ executive matters‚ legislative matters‚ diplomatic matters. Like it or not‚ not every project in existence has a political reason for its existence

[@tobiokandi]

Meanwhile the same sceptics are on about colonising mars

[@tobiokandi]

@The M Network I don't think you read my comment or watched the video properly.

[@Erminestreet]

We, as a species, have to have another home apart from our planet if we don’t want to go extinct. This planet has wiped out 99% of all species ever lived here

[@salehalghamdi7848]

@@Erminestreet Wikipedia is NOT a reference in terms of academic speaking.

[@paladro]

@@Erminestreet yet we persist

[@christofelmalik4240]

@@Erminestreet 99%? Yeah..not sure about that.

[@tobias2688]

I still don't understand why they build a city shaped like a line. It's the least practical shape a city could have.

[@gordonthomson7533]

@Lol Ooll by.... Turning it into not a line?

[@gordonthomson7533]

@Lol Ooll yeah, ie not A line.

[@hnys7976]

Its built to expand overtime. And they are testing out certain transport...

[@arthurwagar6224]

Once it's established it will start to get fat.

[@neku2741]

they could expand in by making another line, lol the idea is so stupid why not make it a round or square city it is far more practical

[@VivalaryMan]

I still think you should be spending money on helping the insane amount of refugees from neighbouring countries settle in the vast amount of land and obscene amount of wealth in a muslim country instead of sending them to small islands or Europe on the other end of the world that are not muslim, not obscenely wealthy and have precious little land to offer their own people nevermind someone from the other side of the planet, where those people go on to be marginalized, converted to extremism and perpetuate a seemingly never ending problem.. Can you dig it Saudi Arabia?

[@mistage1397]

R u a Muslim?

[@emmanuilushka]

Sure they can. They spending hundreds of millions of dollars on various refugees programs. They already have a huge number of refugees. By 2015 only Syrians were 2 500 000. Located in Saudi Arabia.

[@romeolarenzo3929]

Yes but Europe likes to get involved in the Middle Eastern wars so they must pay the price by taking refugees, as NATO plays a massive part in destabilising those Countries in the region, I think it’s fair they except refugees if the white people of Europe aren’t happy with that why don’t you question your government and tell them to stop invading foreign lands that are thousands of miles away.

[@VivalaryMan]

@@romeolarenzo3929 This is true but our government doesn't represent us as a people, and they don't listen to us anyway so why would it matter? Why don't terrorists target parliament or leaders, instead of slaughtering innocent people on the streets who not only had nothing to do with it, they were already in agreement the wars should stop? It's just one big cycle of never ending problems going round and round and the entire world is sitting wondering why, it's pathetic.

[@House.H]

Saudi already spent bilions of dollars for the neighboring countires and others and yet its like they didnt do anything and even worse sometimes they get badmouthed from some! They rather secure their future.

[@mr.3tb211]

الدولة التي وقف ضدها الشرق و الغرب لاكن انها صمدت ورفضت وهاذا ما جعلني اقول بكل فخر و اعتزاز ارفع راسك انت سعودي

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@davidthewise6617]

يا عتيبي السعودية 🇸🇦 قويه بسبب كنز مكه وبدونه هي دولة مثل غانا 🇬🇭

[@mr.3tb211]

@@143mathematics Who do an 🇮🇶 your 🇺🇸 kil anyway an 🇮🇶

[@shakeebwonderous2059]

أي شرق وغرب يا مغفل؟ لا توجد دولة في العالم فرضة عقوبات على السعودية ومع ذلك التنمية فاشلة و الشعب حاله من سيء إلى أسوأ سلطة الرجل الواحد ستودي السعودية في الحضيض

[@davidthewise6617]

@@shakeebwonderous2059 انت لا تدرس الوضع فعلياً طالما السعودية 🇸🇦 بها كنز مكه فهي في أمان ولكن من علامات ظهور المهدي هي الحرب على كنز مكه

[@fredgalaxy7632]

Let Saudi Arabia concentrate on itself! It's their land, their money, their choices. It's time the Arab spring was amongst the most thriving cities on plantet earth.

[@uoutub3]

It's hard when they are all still so backwards

[@imbasforosnai2392]

This isn't the Arab spring. This is only global PR for greedy murderers (MBS).

[@imbasforosnai2392]

@@simonwilson7581, future generations will remember your stupid comment when the rainforests and oil are gone.

[@user-cx2ct3kx1y]

@@imbasforosnai2392 american kill more than 200 mil people so we should not go their? Europe killed millions and take insane amount of money of all the other races and now you talking like that?? How is the murder again tell my??? You want us to by poor

[@imbasforosnai2392]

@@user-cx2ct3kx1y MBS is a murderer and a liar. Anyone who follows him proves to the world they are the same, regardless of what other nations have done over millennia.

[@thesoultheory3822]

This feels like a Fyre Festival fiasco waiting to happen, only bigger. BUT I do concede it would be cool if they actually pull it off.

[@Hwje1111]

I mean, they have more resources than the organizers of the fyre festival. And they have a lot more time to work with. Honestly imo it’s a coin toss over whether it will suceed or not.

[@DarthPerkins]

Visiting the Fyre Festival would be bad enough, but imagine LIVING there!

[@paulineoliver5108]

@@DarthPerkins NWO

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Seriously why it is a line? It is just extremely weird and inefficient way of building a city. So it looks like main reason for the project attracting attention exactly same as the world islands from UAE which became a HUGE failure in every way. And while they are committing many crimes from murder to torture and having absolutely no care about people i think claiming MBS is actually doing something right in ''macro level'' is just wicked...

[@DarthPerkins]

@@ggoddkkiller1342 I think that's it; it's just a gimmick. Or that strip of land was available, or there's an underground river there. Or it makes it easier to line up people to execute if the Saudis don't like the colour of your trousers. But most likely a gimmick.

[@B-kl8vj]

This is something a 10 year old would come up with or a rich prince who has never heard the word no.

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

Exactly. What do you think happens to the critics that tell him "no"?

[@shahdrah]

Displacing the local people to build a land for mainly foreign investment doesn't sound like a deal for the locals. They should be at the forefront of development as they know the land and it's needs better 👍🏾

[@mathudeano7431]

There’s a reason nobody else has built a city in a straight line - it’s not practical, imagine living at one end and working at the other 😂

[@julianshepherd2038]

Okay for a village but no bigger.

[@maryamalgaw2407]

U guys don’t understand it 🤣🤣🤣

[@nas9038]

Look the project up and you will be amazed 😍😍👍

[@khalidibnwalid1340]

Are you invited to live in that city or do you have a plan to buy real estate there?

[@maryamalgaw2407]

@@khalidibnwalid1340 No”-“

[@m.f.t3d593]

Saudi Arabia leaders knows what they do ;)

[@strikingvisualdata7253]

because they are leaders

[@m.fatani7288]

Haters gonna hate.. Saudi and MBS doing great

[@wavyy]

Lets see for how long. Oil is going to be irrelevant soon

[@m.fatani7288]

@@wavyy not in developing countries and oil still makes all plastics.. not going away for decades.. 🤷‍♂️ gdluck

[@Braceheadon]

Saudia arabia can't be like UAE no matter what they do... the mentally is just not there

[@m.fatani7288]

@@Braceheadon Saudi has its own vision 2030 and no where does it say in its vision that the goal is to be like UAE or to change its mentality. To each his own.. one country building and succeeding does not mean its neighbors cannot also build and succeed. NEOM and the Line is on the Red Sea, no where near UAE in the gulf. Very different places with a different neighborhood on the West Coast of Saudi.

[@rat699]

@@Braceheadon I think you don’t understand that UAE is literally a experimental ground for the Saudis

[@MultiSciGeek]

There's a high chance it will never be completed. But if it is - then great job I guess. Beyond building a city he'll have to open up and modernise the country like the UAE did.

[@TheCJUN]

What's is this line you keep mentioning? A road, tunnel, a canal?

[@Someone-wh8hi]

A city

[@MrCalls1]

A city. It appears they wanted to throw every land piece of transport into one city, but couldn’t figure out how to make intersections work.

[@Tpk1976]

Conceptually, I'm thinking the long "International Drive" in Orlando loaded with attractions today. One long LINE with the free iRide trolley lets you visit all so easily for the tourists. Saudis are about to do it much newer/better with the renewable energy underneath it!

[@Tpk1976]

@CNN is Fake News If you study Riyadh, the capital city... It neither has access to water nor oil. It's literally in the middle of the desert. However, it keeps growing as the biggest city of Saudi thanks to the financier$ + the political-will combo. Btw, China & US partners every single time and its the benefit$$ that keep them coming back.

[@AA-bn5xt]

@@Tpk1976 Riyadh does not have the vast mountains to make uninhabitable which the line city does

[@user-yb5gd2jh1i]

We love suadi arabia

[@davidthewise6617]

I love ❤️ the most merciful He is the one who made Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 wealthy And without him it will be Ghana 🇬🇭

[@yazzbazzs3602]

🌹🌹🌹

[@anas7088]

Saudi Arabia in 2030 will be a global destination in the world and NEOM the future city of the world it’s bigger than NewYork city 33 times proud to be a Saudi citizen ♥️🇸🇦

[@Abu_miller]

Yes

[@aishabintpaul9737]

Say in shaa Allah lol. I’m from New York City and that’s very hard to see but Allahu alam

[@keefeD146]

11:04 I love how the painter was able to capture the awkward guy starring blankly at the man's beard

[@lazyjesus6573]

The higher you build the greater the fall.

[@TopTechTrendsX]

Yup and the west has a great fall on its doorstep

[@Raifesllangley]

Tallest building in the world is in the Middle East......

[@TopTechTrendsX]

@@Raifesllangley This is true, but Its the time of the East now. West is about to collapse. Then they will follow suit.

[@Shitposter-yp7dj]

@@TopTechTrendsX okay weirdo why don't you go and get a drink of water

[@Raifesllangley]

@@TopTechTrendsX The economy in the East is too dependant on oil, the west isn't going to be using the same quantity of oil in the future. So prices will dramatically decrease in the next 50 years. Projects like 'the line' are happening because the Saudis know this and are using their oil wealth on investment to help build a future. If climate change gets worse tho, the middle east will run out of water and the whole region could be inhospitable. We'll see but I wouldn't be too certain.

[@axem.8338]

The last question answered everything you wanted to know.

[@nas9038]

You can ask me if I want a chocolate ice cream, my answer doesn’t prove anything ☺️

[@khalidibnwalid1340]

Envy is a disease

[@MichaelJ44]

@@nas9038 I’ll make you one

[@AA-bn5xt]

@@khalidibnwalid1340 Envy of a bunch of Bedouins who have nothing to offer but oil and false hope?

[@youtubebram4393]

@@MichaelJ44 a question or a chocolate ice cream?

[@olzwolz5353]

Just thinking about living in such a one dimensional space is making me feel claustrophobic.

[@szabikrdev5066]

living in a one dimensional space is certainly very claustrophobic

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Seriously why it is a line? It is just extremely weird and inefficient way of building a city. So it looks like main reason for the project attracting attention exactly same as the world islands from UAE which became a HUGE failure in every way. And while they are committing many crimes from murder to torture and having absolutely no care about people i think claiming MBS is actually doing something right in ''macro level'' is just wicked...

[@m7mdalrajhi725]

I don’t think it’s that thin. no way😂😂

[@mikethepipes]

Brutal idea. You're basically maximising the distance between any two points in the city, making it the most inefficient it can be. Cities look the way they look for a reason. They tend to have a central core, arteries leading out of it with a hub and spoke kind of structure, and other links between regions on the periphery, and between all areas in between, even if they have to work around natural obstacles like rivers. This maximises connectivity, and minimises the distance between points, making normal cities really efficient and high functioning (though with some exceptions, but normally in these cases there are confounding factors). They'll find out very quickly why normal cities are good once they've built one in a straight line that doesn't work.

[@robdzi5509]

Great point. As an transport planning consultant I am suprised this has not been raised by specialists within this vid. As well as the points you mentioned the one line will be totally over saturated as all would need to use the one route to get anywhere. Any issue of the line being closed, whether through maintance or traffic accidents, would totally cripple the while line as there are no alternative routes. Completely idiotic idea, probably with zero input from any planning specialists.

[@blindingshadow3463]

No no no. You do not understand this system is wildly inefficient. This will be clean, efficient, self sustaining.

[@blindingshadow3463]

Long live the house of Saud

[@korviscapetrova5269]

yes yes that is correct and this is also the reason why cities with great public transport has the best lifestyle for all the general public.

[@natalia2392]

@@blindingshadow3463 elaborate

[@maelewnchief5156]

Lines drawn in certain cities are sometimes distinguished by pedestrian crossings or a land mark building.

[@wymanspace4173]

These people has so much money now, let them do whatever project they like. At least it provide jobs and set some prospect for growth. It might take some years before the humanities practice set in. Meanwhile, you the critical first world countries nation just support any system that pushes whichever country towards a better life. Otherwise... shut up.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@MrSeanrosser]

Line drawing at its finest😂😂

[@jujijiju6929]

MBS always looks like he's about to burp after a heavy lunch.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@helenq6894]

He is equally comfortable discussing the nuances of social media with young people at a recent conference as he is outlining the kingdom's strategy for a diversified economy with foreign journalists.

[@shawnstangeland3011]

Feel free to visit. I drove by it two years ago and saw a forest of building cranes

[@AndyLowe-net]

I'm gonna say the obvious thing; isn't setting things out in a massive line just annoying because then you are never close to anything? A city in a normal shape is way better, if it ain't broke don't try to fix it..

[@Azknowledgethirsty]

Normal shape being as close to a circle as possible, in reality geography gets in your way but on flat sand? They should make the circle instead

[@mewho3489]

they’ve made it in a way that every important location is within 20min distance.

[@stephenbanks5952]

@@mewho3489 Why do you so easily believe this claim. Try to think for yourself. The only way that would work is wirh a hyperloop (doesn't exist yet) and it goes end to end without stopping. Remembering you have nine million people wanting to get on and off. This claim is a lie. Don't believe what you are told so easily.

[@GBart]

It's monumentally stupid Not only does it make everything further away, but traffic jams would block ALL traffic. There's no room for growth or expansion, either, except outward from the ends, even further away from everything

[@PeerKristijan]

Actually, the city being vertical gives its planners a lot of flexibility. That's why it's planned to have everything within a five minute walking reach. They'll put business, commercial, residential, and other areas within close reach of each other.

[@mfundonkosi6927]

Ordering killings is not part of being "human". It's not some small excusable mistake. What an idiotic commentary.

[@Ozmourne]

Agreed

[@seasesh4073]

I don't think you can really blame him, we all know what would've happened if he called a spade for what it is

[@abo3zzzam]

First prove it. Second, the west slaughtered more humans than the Mongols did. Remeber the Nazis Dear Europe? They are from your own ranks. So set down from your high horse.

[@imbasforosnai2392]

@@abo3zzzam the Mongols are building this folly?

[@craig5261]

Government is nothing but the threat of legalised violence.

[@rext8949]

The most important factor for any successful enterprise is that it should be self-sufficient and independent to survive on its own. If this city is dependent on external sources for most its requirements it will be compromised at a certain level.

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@thelionking3321]

@@143mathematics dude, they planned for this long back, its not something they can do it to cover up a journalist murder. Even if he is murdered by Salman, no one will be questioning it as he is the crown prince...if USA pushes him hard on any matter he will rise his voice against killings in Iraq and all the wars America went so far...it's the way how the world works.

[@yousefalasiri8808]

@@thelionking3321 he is spamming it everywhere and he always has 2 likes...

[@johannesmohner8695]

@@yousefalasiri8808 yes 123 Mathematik is a left ngo troll

[@chewphg2540]

Ww

[@gkalou93]

when the most efficient shape to build a city is circle, they are building a line.

[@malarrazzax8428]

but if you draw a long enough line on the earth, you'll obtain a circle ahahahahahaha

[@gregastanti3707]

The most dumbest way to build a city is circle. Ask Moscow citizens. Although it's a huge territory the ring structure of the city strangles it's transportation infrastructure

[@spacegoose1574]

@@malarrazzax8428 hahah

[@gkalou93]

@@gregastanti3707 I imagine that Moscow wasn't built from scratch and the transportation infrastructure was expanded gradually. I believe that they could build a proper transportation infrastructure when designing something completely new, especially in an area without many physical limitations like rivers.

[@emmanuilushka]

@@gkalou93 it was actually build from scratch All needed buildings and landscapes were destroyed in favor of new dumb wide avenues and transport system You would be appalled to know the scale of destruction and damage to historical Moscow

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[@WhichDoctor1]

This doesn't look very human-shaped. This is why planned cities so often don't work. Architects have self-important ideas that if they just built the "perfect city" then the people who live there will become perfect too. But a perfect city is one that is designed around the needs and desires of people who already exist, rather than the people having to fit themselves around the whims and desires of whoever imagined it. Humans are messy and complicated and always changing. This looks like someone got a ruler and a pen, drew a line across a map and liked the mathematical simplicity of it.

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

Isn't every US city planned? Those perfect squares didn't come out of nowhere

[@WhichDoctor1]

@@ASLUHLUHCE The reason they work is because those squares don't really affect how people live that much. In what way do they relate to the point I was making?

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

@@WhichDoctor1 Nevermind

[@gingin21jr]

I lived in Saudi in the 80th.loved it. Now: never will go again.

[@craig5261]

Its not like you have a choice

[@napolien1310]

May I ask why? And the difference you saw back then and now?

[@jackolantern6719]

Just say you want Saudis to go back to their backward and tribal thinking 😆

[@abdurrahmanalbiswas6312]

Please don’t come

[@sahilsyed2850]

Gao bizi Saudi Arabia doesn't need you..you are too old..it's time for you to go Up😁

[@skullcandy6890]

His favourite son, just shows what that family is like! No parent should be choosing favourite out of their children should love them all the same!!

[@emperorvader283]

Yeah, He should be like trump Doesn’t care about any of them At All!!!

[@khaledalmutairi4027]

Don’t believe anything you hear. It’s not because he is the favorite one, because the king believe he is the right one to be the next king.

[@shitzuation]

8:02 bust a move buddy!!!! 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼

[@segniw2]

"Never do that again"-HITCH

[@SKhandleYT]

I gotta chase a line here now

[@mouse5178]

Wrong way.......down a one way street

[@emmanuilushka]

Miami - 190 km one way street such a wrong way...

[@Jozztime]

Star ⭐️

[@72pod]

Yer faither would be proud.

[@ianjohannes7524]

...wha's dat? ....s'byu-eeful...

[@liamrafferty117]

Rip Benny Harvey

[@Z_-un4eo]

8:03 wtf is going on? Lmaooo

[@vjchallenger8535]

Wondering the same thing

[@Olly1001]

When dancing is illegal and the rules change.

[@Z_-un4eo]

@@Olly1001 well out of all the dances it had to be the possession one?

[@khalidalsharari8355]

That is not in Saudi Arabia, just searching about the concerts in Saudi Arabia in the last few years and you will be amazed, I promise you 👌🏼

[@kp5602]

Its a video from Kerala‚ India in 2016

[@goofygoob0373]

How do you police and protect a 100km+ long city? Seems like a very vulnerable place to live.

[@chadwallman9733]

Is this connected with the stock ticker NEOM which was NeoMedia Tech? I know its been acquired but at what point will this be an investment?

[@bakrahmad8244]

People are jealous from a desert guy who have a big dream 🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@sipsofhell9018]

its just too over the top. what will sustain such progress? what raw material apart from Oil does Saudi Arabia have? Even if you build factories you will have to import skilled labour to work in it cause the general public are incapable

[@sk8899]

As the world towards Battery EVs & Hydrogen FCEVs its clear that the Petroleum based economy of Saudi Arabia will take a great hit. Though it doesn't means that Petroleum won't be used but its demand won't be that high as it is today. Thus "Saudi Arabia" must consider to invest in these areas:- (1) Human Resource development (2) R&D (3) Higher Education (4) Vertical Farming (5) Seawater Desalination (6) Brine Mining (7) Development of a Constitutional Monarchy (8) Nuclear Energy (PWRs, FBRs & SMRs) (9) Civilian Space Program (10) Public Rental Housing If the current "Suadi Monarchy" wants to insure long term Stability then its important to shift towards "Constitutional Monarchy" with a Parliamentary System.

[@888arnie]

Easier to build in this desolate part of the world than on Mars.

[@salehalghamdi7848]

Conclusion.

[@GBart]

Yet somehow less practical

[@GBart]

I wonder why the prince thinks nobody ever builds cities in a line, or in the middle of the desert

[@cloud_runner]

this city looks cool, build it now

[@beyondthehorizon1474]

They are sure rich. I could do with somma dat dosh for my world saving idea.

[@awordabout...3061]

"Gentlemen...welcome to Dubai...er...I mean Saudi Arabia!"

[@MARILYNANDERSON88]

A freight line and enterprise zone connecting these points will be productive.

[@bearithme97]

MBS we love You, all young Saudis Love you

[@flyingdutchman9729]

Yeah you said it, All young Saudis love MBS.. But that's still a minority becouse Saud is the name of a royal family and Arabia is the name from the nation of Arabic people. A quit big different.. isn't? So you better stop with provoking and Insulting the Arabic citizens with pretending that they all are saudis.....

[@bearithme97]

@@flyingdutchman9729 who are “Arabic” citizens ? I’m speaking about Saudi people

[@flyingdutchman9729]

@@bearithme97 Learn history dude The name Saudi Arabia didn't even exist before ww1 The name Saudi Arabia is given by the Royal family from England after the saudis helped the British empire in their war against the Ottoman empire. The British Crown give the Saud family their royal status and became the rulers over Arabia. The saud family got their royal position and welth by collaborating with England and Jews, Just they collaborating in this time again with Yankees and Jews and bringing the western amorality to the Islamic holy places in Arabia....

[@flyingdutchman9729]

@@bearithme97 Till today we speaking about the Arabian peninsula, not the saud peninsula .... so, if you speaking in terms of saudi people then you speak only about the saud family and not about the average Arabian people...Bye...

[@hshogdar6226]

​@@flyingdutchman9729 So how would you name/call a citizen from Saudi Arabia? Because calling them Arabic citizens is kind of vague.

[@Ridhwan99]

Love how the FT chose to show all the dictators shaking hands with Tony Blair

[@repletereplete8002]

What are the supposed benefits to it being a long line stretched into the desert? All I can see is large drawbacks especially for those stuck way out on the far end away from the coast.

[@miguelafonso9717]

Efficient transport, only one line that gets you everywhere

[@nokaton]

@@miguelafonso9717 It's not even efficient. Imagine the train brakes and you only have one line.

[@KissMyBlackStone]

this prince is playing around, nothing to lose

[@Katie-yl3tu]

Just gives us Saudi citizens a huge headache... looking at all this money being wasted

[@jertor1003]

possible low cost air filters could be solar panel like design of moss, hung around the city as art pieces.

[@richperson1575]

He is not an activist aloda guy He is againts the government over all so any thing the government do Will not be enough for him

[@sorehary9851]

And people in there love to saying "im save here"

[@Nawa11YT]

Well it’s because everyone thinks that we’re not

[@sorehary9851]

The last question is lit 😆

[@mikewilliam5308]

Sore Hary are you interested in bitcoin investment mining services

[@brettmoore3194]

Its actually a good prospect if having people like me that have underestimated ideas like high altitude Ariel wind generation or the permanent AC battery. I will sell my knowledge of us patents and my ability to augment the ideas

[@rohailkhan5128]

Long live Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 our Beloved Watan 🤗

[@nas9038]

❤️❤️❤️

[@GiftyBargains]

I long for their destruction

[@nas9038]

@@GiftyBargains hate is a disease my brother, let’s pray for peace and love 💕

[@beatpeace879]

It was our beloved prophet land peace be upon him, now it’s just the land of greed and the enemy of Isaa peace be upon him

[@iahmed1534]

The amount of hatred in the comments and exploitation of Khashoggi's case, and the distortion of his reputation, MBS, I really do not know why all this distortion and an attempt to discredit and denounce most things, MBS freed Saudi Arabia from extremist religious extremism and gave women their rights and he wants change in Saudi Arabia, but not with one push

[@iahmed1534]

+America in its latest report did not acknowledge that MBS was the killer

[@belka8618]

He's a dictator. History has proven that when dictators screw up they go in all the way til the end. Take this neom thing for example. It's 500 fukin billion dollars. Saudi Arabia is rich but not that rich. If it fails Saudi Arabia will go bankrupt. He will either make or brake saudi arabia. And that's why dictators are bad. There's no stopping them.

[@malgorzatamiroslawakim7187]

Is messing project whit my respect wishing Your the best good jobs happy weekend to Your thank You Very much for shering video,

[@heehee6809]

Oh damn I didn’t actually realise they’ve been working on this for a year. I thought they just created an animation in a week and uploaded it and become trending

[@rakanaltalhi2130]

It's an ambitious project, and as a Saudi citizen I'm looking forward to this. I understand some of the people here in the comments and in the video as well saying it's "too ambitious", and that's true. But, it's NOT impossible. We have a lot of projects other than NEOM and I hope to see all of them finish by 2030.

[@khaledmaher6602]

they said the same about UAE and look at UAE now, nothing is impossible with a great leader

[@sawsanmohammed1131]

@@khaledmaher6602 Key word: Great leader

[@khaledmaher6602]

@@sawsanmohammed1131 yes indeed

[@ami8079]

Whatever happened to : God willing ?

[@masood3187]

@@ami8079 Inshaa'Allah.

[@dunggg]

It will be abandoned when oil price collapse next year

[@mistage1397]

They have 1 trillion barrels of oil that they are keeping underground

[@bign3ck]

@@mistage1397 which will be worthless in, a few years once electric, fusion and renewable energy replace the black poison ☠

[@gregastanti3707]

@@bign3ck fusion is waiting since 1970s )) Coal, oil and gas are the resources which build current economy. Polymers which are made from oil a truly wonder material that save the world. It would be impossible to realise modern era without help of plastics. Implementing highly sophisticated techologies by outstanding chemists, engineers and even computer scientists. More and more composite materials are using polymers. Guess what - wind turbine blades, lithium-polymer batteries, polymer modified concrete...

[@user-iz4rx9zs4q]

Keep dreaming😁😁😁

[@TDR-0484]

@@bign3ck oil isn't going anywhere for quite a bit longer than that bud.

[@snakesnake6799]

There are a lot of tribes and people living along that road so it will be a collection of small cities connected by a road

[@Bombay.Badboy]

reminds me of that one city skylines video where he makes the longest street ever and how hellish it would be

[@joebid6116]

He is a playstashion player so maybe he see the city in game

[@HamzooPineda]

Their money their country. Let them do whatever they want.

[@AFA111]

When you will have oil money, you gonna do the same. Wasting resources.

[@Dhoom1981]

Oh yah like colonising mars isn't the greatest way to waste resources!

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@sammyo2583]

@@143mathematics there’s more to the murder of Khashoggi than its been reported ....why was he killed? What was Khashoggi up to to deserve that sort of treatment?

[@Dhoom1981]

@@sammyo2583 He was a former saudi Intel. Agent

[@sammyo2583]

@@Dhoom1981 was he behind the shooting in Vegas? Because that’s what I heard.

[@mrbigsasmr8188]

If it's a new city then why do you have the picture of the crowne Prince then why

[@Peteristrate]

All these journalists criticizing the king, in this video, claim to be "experts" in Saudi matters, yet they have probably never walked in that country as they know they'll be lynched by the king for their criticisms :))

[@Hydrocarbonman147]

" You need a big dose of testosterone and a base ball bat to have made reforms in Saudi Arabia" what about a bone saw?

[@marioluigi9599]

Yes you need that for journalists that have the nerve to talk about your great majestical fatness

[@abduljack92]

@@marioluigi9599 don’t talk unless you see you will be answerable to god about what you speak

[@marioluigi9599]

@@abduljack92 OK I'll be answerable to God for saying MBS wanted him dead.... right.... Who did I hurt with my words? YOU? So I will be answerable to God for hurting YOU? Is this your logic?

[@marioluigi9599]

@ادم محمد He wasn't a journalist? He was employed by the Washington Post as a journalist, you muppet

[@marioluigi9599]

@@abduljack92 and do YOU think God cares more about people from the Saudi regime than about a man who was killed by them and dismembered? Seriously? Who will really be answerable to God for his death? Because it won't be ME, will it? You're actually a terrible terrible person, because you care more about the "honour" of your masters, the Saudi dictatorship, than you care about people's lives which they freely take. Do you really think God Almighty will be happy with people like you? He sees no difference in the worth of different people's lives, whether they are Saudi "royalty" or Saudi journalists

[@lf-xp3et]

It is our dream, and no one can stop our dreams, even traitors

[@kp5602]

@@mrspoon6094 Cope

[@ibrahimmustafa7185]

Allah

[@abo0od1996]

traitors: Abdullah alaoudh and others who are living outside Saudi and criticizing everything

[@bcp2795]

but your economy will stop your dream

[@kp5602]

@@bcp2795 their economy is fine

[@Caras443]

Any project that is undertaken without the consent, freely given without fear or coercion, of the people will always be doomed to fail. The prince has never given a rationale for such an expensive project other than pure vanity. As far as I can tell, it will never pay for itself, and will depend on the price of oil. If the price of oil falls, it will take this project, and the prince, with it.

[@Baby1245]

The whole lane is a good road to build smart cities that can support a healthy lifestyle within the arabian peninsula.

[@DrJohnnyJ]

Why a line? It is the worst possible design for a city.

[@davidthewise6617]

@@DrJohnnyJ Because of the artificial intelligence designed roads By the way NEOM will be separated from Saudi Before 2030 Because the people of gog Won’t accept one man leading them

[@ygp47]

@@DrJohnnyJ the line obsession is to have a city without traffic jams

[@mrmoses408]

What's MBS "human rights" record has to do with this? We can talk about the O'hare modernisation megaproject in Chicago, without all the gang shootings and police brutality there. Stick to the topic, if we wanted to know about Khashoogi, we would have watched a differently titled video.

[@khalidibnwalid1340]

Khashoggi was an active Al-Qaeda member. Khashoggi family migrated from Turkey about three hundred years before. Adnan Khashoggi was the oil minister of Saudi Arabia. They are rich and have a good life in Saudi Arabia but their allegiance is with Turkey, Turkey lost one of their spy. Khashoggi was given a free column in the Washington Post to spew garbage against Saudi Arabia. Now, who killed Khashoggi and whether MBS was behind his murder is not clear. When people all over the world celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden then why these people are so sad for Khashoggi who was very close to Osama?

[@cjeam9199]

How do those boots taste guys?

[@DeltaEchoGolf]

The press in the US keeps referring to him as a Washington Post reporter. Implying that he's an American. Which he is not.

[@thenailfairy2181]

congraulations cant wait to see the finished project...the opportunities its going to provide for everyone will be enormous..every country should be doing new projects to increase economy...lets be positive and support the leaders that want best for their country and civillians

[@nas9038]

Well said 😍👍

[@oldbatwit5102]

They don't give a damn about ordinary people. They don't even give a damn about half their own population.... women!

[@shooshalnashry6856]

@@oldbatwit5102 I can understand you are saying this as clueless person but as an advice in the future don’t judge a whole society or community how they live through what you get in social media or the brain wash about specific ideas we can get in social media about other countries, I am 1 of the women in Saudi Arabia we have the full rights from the government I would say women in work environment they are treated equally and even better than men in salary and soo many things .. i am not saying this to prove to you anything to be honest I don’t care. But it meant to tell you and highlight the idea that ( how you are stereotyping about the Saudi society or it could be any other society you wil show about your person that you don’t have much knowledge and close minded, and you could be better than this, thank you .

[@oldbatwit5102]

@@shooshalnashry6856 I don't believe this is a true and honest post.

[@shooshalnashry6856]

@@oldbatwit5102 I am not expecting you to believe it and somehow I can’t blame you as well because most people are following the brain wash of social media about specific ideas towards some stuff in our world , because realistically all societies have good and bad but we can’t generalize something to a specific group of people or a country and we judge them without real experience inside that society at least, otherwise it’s racism and stereotyping and not opening ourselves truly to understand other cultures and prespectives with respect. thank you !

[@wlkmwlkm2900]

May your valid dreams come true for us to get jobs in the Kingdom. Congratulations

[@aliaal7980]

All Saudi monarchs reigned with an iron fist. The only difference with MBS is that he eliminated the religious power that took hold of Saudi for so long... is that why the spot lights are on him?

[@boejiden.1445]

Dajjals train escape route?

[@_.x4084]

is it?

[@onlinegladiator5888]

Someone who actually thinks ahead! Good job 👍

[@sudarshan3965]

In this kind of city you will need public amenities much more in number than in normal cities.

[@mistage1397]

How did i know oil would be mentioned in this video?

[@youtubebram4393]

Because you're soooo intellectual...?

[@eidshaman1367]

عندما بدأ العمل في الجبيل وينبع ( مدن صناعية جديدة ) بالسبعينات كانوا يضحكون علينا والآن هي من أهم المدن الصناعية بالعالم . اقدر اكتب بالانجليزية . لكن مايهمني رايهم .

[@shooshalnashry6856]

😂😂😂😂حبيت اخر التعليق

[@emmkillaa]

مبس فاشل

[@WALTONCHIEF]

This actually looks amazing tbf

[@anam.caballerowilson9421]

That's why a line because is one physical dimension design

[@MaximusWild]

A whole new city in the desert? This is where I draw the line.

[@rmaroun]

Ah nice, so only Western democracy can bring reform to the Middle East through lucrative war plans? How is Libya, Syria and Iraq fairing these days? Let's see where this project goes and then offload your one dimensional criticism.

[@lockeandrand]

Not all Westerners agree with this! I'm American and I really like MBS. I would love to visit Saudi Arabia when things return to normal

[@143mathematics]

I THINK THIS IS FOR DIVERSION FROM JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S MURDER CASE.

[@davidthewise6617]

@@lockeandrand Welcome 🙏 Be wise and be Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 citizen Because America is dying

[@davidthewise6617]

@@143mathematics NEOM is the land of Magog And the people of gog Are the corporations workers It will be heaven

[@sammyo2583]

@@davidthewise6617 uh no...the land of Magog is in the northern part of Turkey

[@where-is-my-mind.]

Who did the feasibility assesment of this project?

[@chudchadanstud]

Artists.

[@mythbusterUSA]

Some western consultant trying to get as much as dollars as possible.

[@iiparachuteregiment8800]

Good luck with city, make sure you have a clay shooting ground there so I can visit

[@KOKOBC]

Nobody really asked for it but why not, the idea sounds pretty cool