25/10/2022
Newly-released drone footage shows excavators starting work on digging the foundations for the £440 billion megacity The Line in . The footage was recorded by [IG], and shows diggers at the 170 kilometers long site.
The project was launched by Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will be part of the vast desert complex of [IG], which will also feature an artificial ski resort, an octagonal floating port city, flying elevators, a swimming lane for commuters and robots and AI to serve its future residents.
In the footage, excavators are seen making a trench in the desert. The trench is expected to have the foundations for the city built within it.
Underneath the length of the city, there are also plans to create an underground transport system.
The megacity, which could house up to nine million people, was announced earlier this year. Not everyone was convinced that workers could actually design the city after it was unveiled.
But the footage seems to show that the city is being built and that the dream will be realized.
The Mirror Line will consist of two 1,600 feet tall buildings that run parallel to each other across 110 miles of desert, coastal, and mountain landscapes.
Prince MBS has claimed he wants the Mirror Line to be ready by 2030, although engineers have said it could take 50 years to construct. The is so long that it will sit on struts to take the curvature of the Earth into account, and will also have a high speed train line running underneath its length.
