are they planning to mix dead Yemenis into the concrete for the foundations
lol buried in the last line of the article:
In 2018, British architect Norman Foster suspended his "advisory role" for Neom mega-city project, after the news arriving about the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
haha yeah in the pod they mention that "that event" caused major setbacks to the project but MBS kept posting though it (he wasted a ton of money on bullshit)
Part of me thinks they'll have a 50 meter long metal slab in the desert in about a decade and declare victory
Yeah but the fail son is the one running the entire country, crown prince MBS
Speaking in my capacity as an occasional player of Cities Skylines, my only big question is what are they going to do about emergency service vehicles?
Fire trucks, ambulance, pigmobile, etc?
Well the obvious solution to the traffic problem it will create is to ban left turns and only use merges. When a firetruck leaves a fire, they can just head down to the next fire station, whose firetruck can head to the next one, and so on.
The beauty of this solution is that it can be applied to all traffic, like in the SimCity reboot. You go out to get groceries? Don't turn left, just keep going down until you reach the next unoccupied house. You wake up in the morning, turn right, and just drive until you see the first place hiring, quit at the end of the day and find a new home. Bus brings your kids to the first school on the right in the morning, and in the evening, a different bus comes and brings a new set of children.
It's probably not worth it, I just vaguely remember that people didn't have dedicated work or homes, they'd just go to the nearest unoccupied one, often in a giant crowd on foot.
It goes from the coast up into the mountains so I guess it does 📈📈📈
Can't wait for the Well There's Your Problem crew to shit on this.
Walkability will define The Line which will consists of all essential daily services, such as schools, medical clinics, leisure facilities, as well as green spaces, and all communities will be able to access them within a five-minute walk.
I'd be so excited about this if it wasn't KSA and therefore was never going to happen and is a complete lie like the rest of NEOM.
You've activated my Pedantic Semantics Card!!! Umm sweaty, they said walkable not rideable :stalin-garrison:
You know what would make it more walkable? not being a giant line
I used to live in a town of like 7000 people but the state refused to build any real roads, so it was a fucking 10 mile long town, with no sidewalks or bike lanes, and 2 inch curbs on much of the roads
When you try to create a single main bus in satisfactory rather than a more effficient distributed production matrix.
I mean it's space inefficient, but if you've got more than 1 person working on the factory, it makes it so much faster to expand and keep your assemblers running at max speed.
You never have to ask "Where's the stator line", "Where can I fit another computer line", or "why is this bottlenecked" since it's immediately obvious just looking at any assembler line.
Or you could just use dedicated train supply networks for Iron/Steel/Copper/Oil etc and only do the most advanced assembly in the primary hub. That way you easily know where everything is and if it's running out too fast and you need to slot in a new feed into your train loop.
Saudi Arabia: How many layers of urban sprawl are you on?
Los Angeles: idk, like 5 or 6 my dude
Saudi Arabia: You are like little baby. Watch this:
They wanna do that dumb Boring Company stuff with the high speed underground tunnels. It's dumb and requires them building into a literal mountain and won't happen. The Chapo episode on this is good
Imagine if all the global parasite leaders, their trafficking rings, endless wars, destruction of environments, etc., was all just calculated into a dank plan.
All of a sudden, 360 techno-communist revolution into full sustainability. That would be a trip. Of course, that might not allow them to traffic children anymore, so I doubt it'll happen.
