Saudi Arabia has scaled back some of its ambitions for its desert megacity Neom, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The $1.5 trillion megacity project, which organisers claim will be 33 times the size of New York City, is due to include a 170km straight-line city.
When launching The Line in 2021, the Saudi government had announced that 1.5 million people would be living in the city by 2030.
Officials now expect there to be fewer that 300,000 residents by that time, according to a source cited by Bloomberg on Friday.
The source said that officials expected only 2.4km of the 170km city to be completed by 2030.
albatrosv15 0 points 1 month ago
Nothing works in sandlandistan.
They are STILL at earthworking level. You know, excavators digging holes.