SAUDI  ARABIA  TO BUILD  170 KILOMETERS - LONG CITY AS PART OF NEOM PROJECT

Saudi Arabia publicizes plans for a 100-mile, car-free linear city referred to as The Line

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has unveiled plans for one hundred-mile belt of zero-power walkable groups for 1,000,000 humans.
The linear town will have no vehicles or streets, with all citizens living inside a five-minute walk of crucial centers.
Bin Salman announced plans for The Line in a video in which he described it as a "civilizational revolution that puts human beings first."

The 100-mile-lengthy (a hundred and seventy kilometers) mega-city will encompass related communities – which it calls "city modules" – and hyperlink the Red Sea coast with the northwest of Saudi Arabia.

It can be a part of Neom, Saudi Arabia's absolutely automatic $500 billion locations in an effort to span Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt and be completely powered by way of renewable energy.

The Line will have no cars or streets

According to Bin Salman, who's additionally the chairman of the Neom organization board of directors, production of The Line will start in the first quarter of 2021.

The metropolis will have no vehicles or streets, with the entirety of its inhabitants need reachable inside a 5-minute walk.

"High-pace transportation, utilities, digital infrastructure, and logistics may be seamlessly included in committed areas walking in an invisible layer alongside The Line," said a statement.

Drawings show automobiles pushed by way of synthetic intelligence (AI), a metro line, and high-velocity freight transportation located underground. Overground can be a "pedestrian layer" supported by way of two underground layers – one "provider layer" degree of infrastructure directly underneath the floor and a decrease-degree "spine layer" for delivery.

The kingdom launched construction on the city as part of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's (MBS) “Vision 2030” to steer the economy away from crude, loosen social restrictions and boost investment.

With its lack of above-ground vehicles, the crown prince has emphasized its potential for carbon emissions and emphasis on the preservation of nature. The project also claims to be the first in 150 years of major urban development designed around people instead of roads.

“I present to you THE LINE, a city of a million residents with a length of 170 km that preserves 95% of nature within NEOM, with zero cars, zero streets, and zero carbon emissions,” the crown prince, who also serves as chairperson of the NEOM's board of directors, said about the project, according to the company's official website.

Despite the controversy surrounding crackdowns on protestors and opposition from locals during relocation, the company plans to keep its deadline and continue with the construction of its "sustainable, compact and liveable" metropolis scheduled to welcome its first residents in 2024.