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
The obvious reason it’s bad is that it maximizes travel time/distance and minimizes alternate routes. There are other reasons I’m sure
That think that the Saudi's want to build? It'd be a 500km long tombstone for the slaves that built it. It's also hilarious that they're trying to Greenwash themselves with it considering their wealth comes from one of the main energy sources that is destroying the planet
There's a nice WTYP episode about it, very funny. Short answer, it's the worst shit not even a child would dare to mutter for being so beyond stupid.
I think there's more Trashfuture eps about NEOM/The Line than any other single subject
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.
When I was really young, all I could really figure to do with legos was to build a simple stack of them as high as i could before it fell over.
This project seems like that, but horizontal - a child's plaything, that just so happens to be horrible for humanity.
