Saudi Arabia's £1.2 trillion plan to build the city of Neom has been scaled back, with the ambitious project now expected to have only 300,000 inhabitants by 2030 instead of the originally planned 9 million.
Two lines of mirror-clad skyscrapers will stretch from the mountains to the Red Sea – if Neom , The Line, is ever finished Saudi Arabia ’s £1.2 trillion plan to revolutionise the way we lived with the vast line city of Neom just got an awful lot less ambitious. The Line was supposed to transform the desert sands into a solar-powered city of 9,000,000 people across a 105-mile stretch of mirror-clad skyscrapers from the mountains to the Red Sea.
The Line is a vanity project of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman But the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund is yet to approve this year’s budget for Neom and its tech revolution. Announced in 2021, the vision for Neom – also known as The Line – is a city full of green spaces, free of cars and with all your daily needs within a five-minute walk. More than 100,000,000 cubic metres of sand have already been moved as contractors excavate a 75-mile canyon in the desert.
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