>Saudi Arabia has been forced to scale back its $1.5trillion plans for a 106-mile linear desert megacity, according to reports, in a humiliating climb down for the kingdom.>The Line - part of the country's audacious and futuristic NEOM project - was meant to be home to around 1.5 million residents by the end of the decade, with plans to ultimately increase its full capacity to nine million people.>Now, according to people familiar with the project, the development will only stretch 1.5 miles and house fewer than 300,000 residents by 2030, according to a new report from Bloomberg citing sources close to the project and documents.Lol it didn't take long to happen exactly what /n/ said would happen.
Great, now every cagie will be using this as a counter for how walkable cities cost too much and e-bike losers will try to justify their explodium machines with this. I can almost see this being a real talking point for the upcoming elections this fall here in the US and walkable cities like my own place in Boise are pushed back from adding additional bike lanes or heated bike paths to combat snowfall.Just fucking let me move to the netherlands already work...
>>1990781>oh no, why did I move to the most boring country in western europe at the advice of a breadtuber?! What a fool I have been
>>1990783NL has hundreds of years of culture, history, and freely bikable cities compared to the US. I want to move there but I am stuck here because of work.
>>1990784>but I am stuck here because of workNo you're not.You're "stuck" because you don't want to lift a finger to change your situation. Thus, in your mind, it's perfectly reasonable that everyone else should prioritize """walkability""" for you, instead of you doing the work to find a job that allows you to move abroad.
>>1990781nothing walkable about a 106 mile long "city"
Linear cities have always been a stupid idea
>>1990781>Great, now every cagie will be using this as a counter for how walkable cities cost too much> I can almost see this being a real talking point for the upcoming elections this fall here in the USBait or truly mindbroken. Who knows.>heated bike pathsDutch plans for this, and the only results I could find, was cancelled because too expensive. (And too retarded). Another experiment couldn't handle the cold and broke down and resulted in a ruined road surface.Solar cyclesways are also a failure, as was expected by anyone that didn't have the ability to burn endless taxpayer money for their own gains.
>>1990784I lived there and let me tell you its fucking trash lmao, literally nothing to do, rains 24/7, and everything is expensive as shit
>urbanists making fools of themselves againTheir infinite appetite for self-humiliation is actually impressive
>>1990776Adam Something is furiously masturbating after reading the news.
>>1990884I don't blame him for one second. The number of knuckle-dragging retard who believed this was staggering.
So it's basically a big apartment building after this point. Good.
>>1990776Why do Gulf Arabs have the most tasteless and childish ideas on the planet? Their ideas for diversification of oil sound like the business plans I would make as a kid. >Qatar: Build a dozen soccer stadiums and bribe to get a FIFA world cup. That should bring in tourism! >UAE: Flashy cars, insane wealth, building private islands that keep sinking back into the sea, and servants everywhere. That should bring in people and investment! >Saudi Arabia: Lets build a 106 mile single line city in the middle of nowhere. Why not just buy up the solar panels the Chinese keep dumping in the west, put them all around the desert, and run massive data centres with tax incentives and grants? Why not just spend all your oil money on desalination and vertical farming so your people are self reliant? Nope, instead we get the dumbest projects known to man.
>>1990926Because there's no system over there by which people can tell someone with money "lol you're a moron" like there is in america. You talk back, you get beheadedBut don't worry we're making it so that the peons aren't allowed to criticize, the thiels and musks of the world are ensuring that the only media channels left are the ones that kowtow to the narcissistic whimsies of billionaires, so you can relax, we'll be like the gulf arabs soon enough.
>>1990926It’s because Islamic culture is fucking tasteless and has absolutely no sense of artistry.
>>1990926Dubai is like Las Vegas without the gambling or charm. Tacky and relies on slave labor.
>>1990940Your views of both vegas and dubai are out of date
>>1990781>>1990784The day that the Dutch have finally had enough and decide to deport all the fatalistic, do-nothing losers that have invaded their country is going to be hilarious.Fix your own shithole, faggot.
>>1990930>the thiels and musks of the worldI know nothing about Peter Thiel except his name, but Twitter was little more than an instrument of government censorship before Musk bought it. Twitter actively censored the Hunter Biden laptop, the fiery but peaceful protests, and everything about covid and the vaxx that didn't fit the narrative. If anything, Elon is the spearhead of pushback against the modern nobility.
>>1991008>I know nothingyeah that much is clear
>>1990977Dubai only exists as a tax haven for Russian oligarchs and 3rd world businessmen. It's just a glorified Champs-Élysées shopping mall for people who are on the sanctions list. If anything, Dubai has become more wretched over the years, the class divide of servants/rich is nearly feudalistic. That makes sense since it's actually a kingdom with no rights.
>>1991051"I don't approve of it" doesn't mean "it isn't a culture"
>>1991055A symptom of global decay is hardly what you call a culture, unless you consider shitting on models chests as cultural enrichment.
>>1991954If shitting on model's chests is a defining feature of a place's recreational priorities then yes, actually it is a culture. Again, culture doesn't just mean "stuff I like". In fact, very often, it will be a lot of things you find disagreeable. Read a book some time
>>1990776kek it's going to scale back to being just a building in the middle of the desert at some point.why the fuck couldn't MBS just turn Jeddah into Tokyo 2.0. I guess the Emperor has no clothes in Saudi Arabia
>>1990935?>>1990926it's a country ran by braindead yes-men.
>>1990926>Why not just spend all your oil money on desalination and vertical farming so your people are self reliant?Funny that you say that.Ironically, Saudi Arabia used to be self reliant, in fact, the largest diary of the world used to be in Saudi Arabia (too lazy to look up the link, so, trust me, bro!) and they were self reliant on grains and maybe alfalfa and stuff, because they have (well… had) huge, prehistoric aquifers under the desert so they not only drilled for oil but also for water and went farming.But of course, being retarded, they overexploited the aquifer (Which is not reneable) and now they don't farm that much anymore.So that leaves desalination.Yes, with loads of "free" solar, that could work. But they already do a lot of desalination (probably not solar powered though…) but a few years ago I was at a conference and some dude was talkingaout how the red sea already is getting notabley more saline because of this, so if they scale that up even more, they'll fuck up their sea too.What was my point? Forgot. I'm drunk and I'm watching a documaentary about submarines.lol, arabs.
>>1990781Your average amerifat constituent can't even find Saudi Arabia on a map, let alone gives a shit about their petrodollar-funded pipe dreams.
>>1990776but looks they cleaned the sand half of that distance
Why don’t they just build an actual decent city
>>1994440Yup. Now they say there's no scale back.
>>1990776>scale backthat's funnyyou mean "abandon"
