Saudi Arabia begins construction of 170-kilometre-long ‘The Line’ mega project

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Saudi Arabia begins construction of 170-kilometre-long ‘The Line’ mega project | Secret Flying

Work begins on ‘The Line’.

 

The construction of Saudi Arabia’s mega-city project, “The Line,” has begun in the north-western Tabuk province of the country.

 

In a video shared by Saudi Arabia-based OT Sky drone company, excavators can be seen getting started on the mega project by digging wide trenches in the desert.

 

‘The Line’, which will be only 200 metres wide, but 170 kilometres long, will be the first city in the world to be powered by renewable energy, including wind, solar, and hydrogen power.

 

Residents will live in interconnected societies run by artificial intelligence designed to coexist with nature.

 

When finished, Saudi Arabia expects the car-less and zero emission city to house 9 million people.

 

‘The Line’, however, is only one of a series of projects which make the $500 billion Neom project.

 

The project wants to build a futuristic space for work, play and living powered by AI and where everything will be accessible “within a five-minute walk and an efficient public transport network will offer an end-to-end journey in just 20 minutes.”

 

Since its announcement in 2017, the Neon project raised eyebrows for proposed flourishes like flying taxis and robot maids.

 

So extravagant is Saudi Arabia’s plan to create an urban utopia that even those working on the project do not yet know if its scale and scope can ever be realised.

 

“There would be so many physical and environmental phenomena that would have to be dealt with to achieve the incredibly minimal and singular character that the renderings propose,” said Marshall Brown, director of the Princeton Urban Imagination Center.