Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince reveals project ‘THE LINE’ in futuristic city of NEOM

[fitpOsitive]

By "private sector" you mean taxi service like Uber, Careem and Ola ?

Yes and may be smaller private trasport companies.

 

[jamahir]

Yes and may be smaller private trasport companies.

Yes, that is what I too meant in yesterday's post that I linked in this thread's post# 8.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Yes and may be smaller private trasport companies.

Flyovers are an obsolete idea, indeed. But see, money involved in building a single flyover is huge.

 

[Dinky]

UAE already tried this, a zero carbon city with no roads or cars. it is called 'Masdar City'.
You know what happened to it? it FAILED massively, the city is empty and no one cares about it and the project got massively downscaled.

There are cities in Saudi Arabia that still get flooded every year due to a terrible drainage systems. Rather than wasting money on a pet project of Bin Salman that will only fail and only be available for the ultra rich like all the other failed project cities it launched in the past decade like King abdullah economic city (KAEC). It would be better use common sense to Fix and improve current major cities like 99% of the worlds nations do

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

If carbon is a problem than just allow electric cars. Without roads you can have certain towns or small designated blocks but when the city is stretched over 170 kms, you will need roads. Anyways is there any pictorial design of the city may look like in 2030s ?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

good question. maybe everything will be rail mounted, things like monorail (short distances) and hyperloop (long distance travel). not so sure about police though, maybe they will use some sort of jetpacks ?

How about fast gondolas? I like the idea of perpetual movement instead of standing around for a train.

 

[Titanium100]

New update on the official NEOM channel

 

[Abu Dhabi]

UAE already tried this, a zero carbon city with no roads or cars. it is called 'Masdar City'.
You know what happened to it? it FAILED massively, the city is empty and no one cares about it and the project got massively downscaled.

There are cities in Saudi Arabia that still get flooded every year due to a terrible drainage systems. Rather than wasting money on a pet project of Bin Salman that will only fail and only be available for the ultra rich like all the other failed project cities it launched in the past decade like King abdullah economic city (KAEC). It would be better use common sense to Fix and improve current major cities like 99% of the worlds nations do

Masdar city has certainly been downscaled but it has not failed. far from it.