Plans to build Saudi Arabia’s 170km linear city the Line ‘scaled back’

Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

11 April 2024

Saudi Arabia is planning to scale down a project to build a 170km-long megacity called the Line, according to reports.

Originally envisaged as being home to nine million people and costing $1.5 trillion to build, the city is now expected to reach just 2.4km and house around 300,000 people by 2030.

Bloomberg reported that it had seen documents relating to the scaling back of the Line, which come as…

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