End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled | FT #shorts

Construction of a multi-t trillion dollar city of the future in Saudi Arabia's Neon is grinding to a halt. I spoke to more than 20 people who worked on the project and they told me that the line which was originally intended for 9 million residents may never house a single one. The project is colossal.Just to give you a sense of the scale, if the line was dropped in central London, it would be taller than the shard and it would stretch all the way to Birmingham. Architects and engineers who worked at Neon t ...