is it good, is it bad, will it ever happen.
this is only half a shitpost i actually can't get my mind around whether it's cool or not.
like there's a very obvious class antagonism that'll come out where the poor can't afford higher places but also I just don't think it's ever gonna come to fruition? Even if it does I can only see it failing, idk just seems like a huge marketing ploy for a money laundering scheme
it's a terrible idea lmao. The ideal city is a circle with a grid of train routes running across it, the line is the exact opposite of that. And apparently they want the part in the middle to be a highway? Never going to work, the amount of car throughput they would need in the middle of the line city would make it so that more concrete would be spent on highway lanes and interchanges than would be spent on buildings and shit.
If they instead invested in massive irrigation projects around the coast they could potentially reclaim a big chunk of the desert and make it livable, though this would wreak havoc on local wildlife. Putting the city through the middle of the desert makes it exponentially more expensive to move the water to where people will need it and is completely non-viable.