I refer again to "the line": have you thought about maintenance costs or operating or everyday costs? Cars are no longer necessary in the line. No elevators are necessary or costly facade cleaning. there is no time delay when you are stuck in a traffic jam, because there is no traffic jam. so i think it's crazy to want to build even higher to present your status. In my opinion, it is not crazy, but brave to have an idea that is not just about showing off, but an attempt to find a smart solution to problems of current events and the future. namasté नमस्ते

@Marco von Atzigen first they should start terraforming a few deserts.

Watching these dumb billionaires build these things is just watching a dystopian scifi movie irl

They should first make a 2 or 3 km model of a line to see whether it works or not.

Yeap hehe, I think a loop would be better though!

RTGame?

@Corrupted Player yep

@TimeFreak sorry for being pedantic but it was Cities Skylines, not Simcity

i guess that those games are not used for solutions in real world? (i ask as an interested and critical gamer)

and i ask all game developers to create a game to handle the whole world: -> Spatially based on the flight simulator, with the implementation of a completely networked system that allows business, trading, etc., although you can set your own rules such as: unconditional basic income, or basic care through minimal work to which every citizen is committed (all unemployed (no matter which status you belong to) could do a lot of useful things).... etc. etc. also a dictator mode where the dictator can decide for the good of all people (e.g. true equality of all people) etc. etc. The simulation should be shaped by the users (with "mods" or whatever you want to call it, which should be able to be created in a very simple programming environment), you should be able to register as an individual in every changed world. all other individuals (who would not be "played" by a full-fledged human) would have statistical process values ​​in the background. Since probably 97% of people would play along, the 3% (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%25) could also be interested in what would come out of it without destroying the current state of the art.

it will only work if it is a resort with a looo... ooong beach and millions of foreign tourists will come

Line cities are better. Only need one bus or train

@Wolfgang van Hagar One train track fails, whole city in the toilet.

That's not an universal principle. Coastal cities, for example, are more linear for obvious reasons. Dubai is like that, for example.

I could see the Line working as a multiple city center city. Essentially you have the centers based around the train stations along the line and suburbs created around it.

I would only stop in survival mode 💀

I actually end up finishing my megaprojects in Minecraft even it's tedious , margaritas help out alot lol

@tyler soto Adderall too

@Lawrence Biteranta yep lol

This is whole mood

😂😂😂 funny

The original version for Arizona was literally a parody project. The Saudis didn't get it.

everyone is saying that

more likely points along the line are gonna debelop into circular cities naturally anyway

May be to cover larger population cluster

So a normal city?

I recommend a ball design ;)

When I saw that tiny foundation I was like NOPE

@Elle Chim same fam, the foundation is even weaker than a foundation of a wind turbine 😂

Can you image the weight of that cable net? All pulling down on the relatively skinny top structure.

Final fantasy X

And imagine if some event caused one of those cables to fail. Domino effect.

@Brian O'Connell reminds of a certain cold war era telescope that recently collapsed. When the first cable snapped, that brief moment where the weight transferred to the backup cables caused enough strain to take down the whole structure.

@DeadTurret well it worked just fine umtil.funding got.cut off to maintain it

@DeadTurret I assume you are talking about the Arecibo Telescope, and to be fair, funding had been massively cut over the decades and was no longer being used. There were talks about completely decommissioning it prior to the collapse.

Exactly.

Only if there was a coaatline or mountainrange along the side

It would indeed and we would call it a slum

We have a bigass line Make it into a city

The train could work if it's maglev.

@Christopher Aaron cities are built as circles Why circles? Because it has the highest area with the lowest perimeter, meaning that the average distance from any single point to another is the shortest The train line serving the city could be much shorter if the city was *not a line*, like for example Tokyo

@Christopher Aaron no they won't. You still have to stop the train and re accelerate from 0 multiple times between the two end points.

New York City, which is mostly linear, you can walk from most subway stations to your East/West destination. If it were more constrained it would be completely walkable. But now that I think about it, The Line would not remain linear for very long and construction would spread out in prime locations.

Sorry our mistake.. :S

Also you have mistakes for ships passing through straits. Although number of ships are decreasing, weight of payload is constantly increasing. That means, companies are prefering bigger ships

Istambul is the most popular city in turkey

@BartekSuper YT yes and it deserved to be The Capital just like -: New York- USA, Mumbai- India, Sydney- Australia, Shanghai/Shenzen -China, Toronto- Canada, Rio- Brazil New Zealand - 1. Queenstown or 2. Auckland

Considering that there's no such thing as a city called istanbul

1. According to the project, approximately 5 bridges will be built and the bridges will be free of charge. 2. They plan to carry commercial shipments to the European continent with the Çanakkale Bridge.

they will build also tunels for cars and rails.

The solution is obvious. Just drain the canal whenever a car wants to cross! Don't think too much about it.

Which is why we pay a lot in service charges. My condo in burj Khalifa has a $30k fee every year, and that's considered little when compared to bigger condos.

Investors that went rich via simple method aka "dig oil - sell oil" are not familiar with future planning

@froggymusicman The city has a sewage system. The tower does not. It's just too tall, it's a pressure issue

@Happy molecule I’m sure if they figured out how to build that high they definitely could figure out how to reduce the poop pressure

@Happy molecule wait but not connected to sewer because of the pressure. So that doesn’t even solve the problem. And now all that pressure is directed to the closed of septic tanks. I think you’d be better off with a connected sewer system then…

at last someone understands it! Thank you...

That's THE irony, apparently unseen by the engineers and project owners, yet obvious to those who actually commute every day. If the train only has 2 stations at both ends, then it's virtually equal to connecting 2 separate circle-shaped cities. LOL.😅 As many people have pointed out, this project is 100% gimmick.

@Alexander Lobov Thank-you! I noticed that nobody was talking about this problem, the biggest in my eyes; therefore I decided to write about it myself 😉

@Indra Pratama Exactly!!!

@Indra Pratama also unseen by a lot of commenters trying to justify this bullshit.

Aisa Hoi Nahi ho sakta

@adolescent TV Bhai Joke samajh nhi aata kya ?

I didnt understand earlier but nowi get what you mean

@Alternated_122 You have big brain Bro .. Hats off .

Minecraft**

or it being an absolutely awful idea even from its conception but dictators push the project along until physics kicks in

And for good reason. Some projects are just wastes of money. The ones listed in this video are prime examples of that.

I was about to post the same thing. That would have been one massive dig!

The producers of the video have no clue about many of these projects. They understand youtube metrics tho.

"a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas."

its a sea to be honest

6:27 animation says strait though...

Exactly! I was like "What this guy is talking about?!"

Exactly! I was like "What this guy is talking about?!"

It would have to be maglev in a vacuum tube. Otherwise, air friction would make such speeds impossible underground. And at this point, it's just not technically and financially feasable to build hundreds of kilometers of near-perfect vaccuum tube with multiple "pressured" stops in between.

people will jump off on there stops

"Don't worry guys, we'll just get all these new unproven technologies working flawlessly to build this, nothing can go wrong" The railway alone would be an absurd megaproject, and on top of that they want to bury it? Sure thing.

Hyperloop

But the train has to stop every few kilometers, so it couldn't be much high speed. Otherwise without stops along the city it will only connect two ends, but what about the majority of people between these two ends? So it would be more like any other metro system, which is not bad, but 170 km would take hours.

They do have to replace people. Plus I agree that the 20 minutes claim is laughable.

even if its not that fast everything will be fine as it is not a big deal but maybe it can cross the line in 20 minutes who knows we can't underestimate the prince

Time to check all the houses in the world

Tom scott made a video about the littlest skyscraper

@dummyspittinglamma Roof scraper

Nah, it can't by concept. Cities expand circularly (grow in all directions) because that's the best way to increase value while reducing the distance from any point to any other point (and especially to the center). The line concept is a fun idea, but you throw away immense amounts of value for it which makes it not worth it. Also kinda why other cities aren't built in a line already.

@Calvin Wong In any amount of time: China won't - too impractical. Canada can't - too many administrations in and out of office.

It biggest problem is the financing it's investors will not invest, due to planning consultants. The concept of building a place along a central route (on a smaller scale and with at least more than one line) was bascially completed in Brasilia, it was an utter failure of urban living, it caused disconnection and made travel exceptionally tedious.

It won't. It has far to much engeneering problems

Dubai Islands already failed 20 years ago.

China's high speed rail system loses 24 million dollars a day

@Gathering No Moss Most passanger trains suffer heavy loss, it is compensated by Cargo trains.

I was thinking about that game throughout this entire video😂

He played with Unlimited money mod

Actually, designed by a bunch of urbanists, city planners, city economists and a bunch of other specialists from all over the world, say what you want but you cant deny the ambition behind the project and the support of its leaders.

if he actually played it hed know its wrong to do it lol

@Faisal Abdullah Ambition and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Horisontal - Vertical = Not the same

Cable bridges are largely horizontal. The highest points don't, and might never, get even closer to 500 m in the air.

@Romi Arkan And because the cables are horizontal, they have handle way more stress than if they were vertical. Here's a simple experiment you can do yourself: Take a weight of some sort and connect a 2 strings to it. Now hold the weight up on the with 1 hand and one string. Then hold one string in each hand and try to hold the weight up by pushing your hands away from each other (to the left and right instead of up) and tell me what was harder. The cables in this tower don't hold up their tower, they only support it from swaying. The cables in suspension bridges hold up the entire weight of the bridge besides the towers/anchor points..

keeps lots of foreign consultants employed though

it's not wasted. Lots of people are getting rich from these ideas not being built.

It could be done maybe a few centuries into the future. But right now, nope.

Nope, some things are straight up impossible. These are such cases. They serve no real purpose and are nothing short of total wastes of money.

The line is a superexpensive stupid idea.

Your thinking comes from not knowing all the times humans failed

As a resident of dubai I can confirm we have modern plumbing for a long while actually.

@Ultla 321 Tell this to the poop lorries out from Burj Khalifa

@Lylly_Bett poop lorries are actually not a problem to anyone,Right?

How does it help me.I never got to go for Hajj.Its been four years.

@Mustang Gt 313 Egypt is better off.

What's that?

@Joxar The broken window is a metaphor imagined by the French economist Frédéric Bastia to explain some of the most common fallacies in economics. Imagine that a window has been broken. You can pretend that it is good for the economy, since it gives some income to the guy who repairs it. That guy will spend his money to buy food from a merchant who will spend his money to buy something else. The broken window has started a long chain of economic activities and spending. But that reasoning is obviously false, since the owner of the window would probably have spent his money on something else, if given the choice, maybe a book. And the librarian would have spent his money on something else etc. The chain of activities that starts with the broken window is obtained at the expenses of another chain. The only way to distinguish the two chains with any certainty is to look at their beginning. The broken window chain starts with a net loss. There is no way any convoluted reasoning can erase that fact. Bastia noticed that a lot of our economic reflections are expressed to present an indisputable waste as if it was "good for the economy". He gives many examples: buying artworks nobody cares about, building roads where nobody is traveling, posting soldiers in garrison just to support the local economy etc. All those things, artwork, roads, garrisons, should be considered for their own merits and not for hypothetical economic fallouts. Of course, it is even worse if you pay people for nothing. You lose the useful work that they would have done otherwise.

@Stanislas Kowalski that's really interesting, I understand it now. thanks for explaing it to me mate

@Stanislas Kowalski that was clever, thanks !

Same for china right I mean they did it with 70-80 years to become a superpower right?

"Growth of Dubai". Please. Painting a turd gold and throwing confetti on it doesn't make it any less of a turd.

It wouldn’t and couldn’t work. Acceleration and deceleration are a thing, and stops cannot be astronomically far a part or else the entire concept is useless. This is just a ridiculous idea. We are needlessly creating our own issues to try and solve in the future.

If only Hyperloops weren't a screaming metal death trap.

Yeah, France !

Thank you! 🥰

Malaysia jugak 🇲🇾😀

@Muhamad Faizal me too

@Top Luxury mee too 🇲🇾❤️🥰 keep it up🔥👍🏻

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Hlw

Time for Asr or Magribh now in Khi.What year.Am or pm.Time ki bat karta he..

Thats the point lol

There is a way around it by not building the canal

Thank you :D

Burj khalifa Lift goes 22mph 10meter per seconds.

😂

they're really not

I guess there will be fair amount of ships that prefer to pay and pass straight instead of waiting for couple of weeks sometimes.

@Ahsan Hafeez That sounds like a good way to piss off russia and things get tense when russia is pissed off.

@Flash Red as of now the turks are chill with the ruskies (kind of) given the love they have begun to share with turkstream or the s-400 or russian tourist in turkey. plus from what i've known of the shipping industry there is huge mix of nationalities involved in the companies and crews so it's not confined to 1 guy only. also there's ukraine, romania, bulgaria and any other country with coastline in the black sea. best thing to do right now, wait and see.

actually not free :)

That wont work out…

it doesn't because it can't get built

Hyperloop are yet a thing it stupid to gamble ur whole country future in shitty way over the edge of what currently possible special when u don't have enough time.

Hyperloop hasnt even been properly created yet. Its still sketches and cgi designs. The real life embodiment of a gofundme page.

Hyperloop? More like getting crushed under the pressure of a vacuum, am I rite?

Hyperloop is even worse

If there is a next generation…

expect it would take way more then 20 mins, cause the train would have to make multiple stops along the way

@taylor garrett you know it's not just one train, right?

They would have to have multiple layers of train lines running 24/7 moving supplies and people in bulk to sustain itself, I think it can be a good idea like neom city cuz Saudi Arabia oil sooner or later run out and investing in something like this could help

If Dubai actually encourage good housing and investment on those island it can pan out

Yep, definitely the most realistic and plausible project on the video.

It has NO chance. The entire concept will never work as it is entirely inefficient.

I wonder what Dubai is like when the oil is Spend

@Michael Michael Dubai will stay the same, they are only 5% dependent on oil. btw Dubai isn't as rich in oil as most think, Abu Dhabi has more than double the oil reserves of Dubai.

0:51 is the new administrative capital of Egypt. They are already doing great with this project.

They cannot close the Bosphorus to foreign ships due to a treaty signed in 1936. However, Canal Istanbul, if it's ever built, will be like a "Toll Road" for commercial ships. Instead of waiting to pass the Bosphorus, they will be able to pay 10s of thousands of dollars and pass through the Canal Istanbul to save time.

It's going to have open spaces, parks and next to the ocean