The Line: Saudi Arabia's 170km Linear City — Original Vision and 2026 Scope Cuts

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Line Saudi Arabia

The Line Saudi Arabia is the most architecturally radical and most heavily marketed component of NEOM, the $500-billion-plus giga-project anchoring Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 economic transformation. As originally unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on 10 January 2021, The Line was to be a single linear city stretching 170 kilometres across the northwestern Tabuk desert from the Gulf of Aqaba inland — a continuous structure 500 metres tall, 200 metres wide, sheathed in mirrored glass, populated by nine million residents, free of cars, streets and carbon emissions, traversed end-to-end by a high-speed underground rail line in twenty minutes. It was, in MBS’s own framing, “a civilizational revolution that puts humans first.”

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The Line: Saudi Arabia's 170km Linear City — Original Vision and 2026 Scope Cuts

The Line Saudi Arabia