Al Arabiya English journalist Jennifer Bell says the first phase of The LINE in NEOM will be completed by 2034.
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00:00Absolutely amazing project, as we said, but extremely, extremely ambitious.
00:05It's going to be massive, like almost the size of New York or bigger.
00:10But tell me, you spoke to the senior NEOM officials about this.
00:14What are they saying about the construction timeline?
00:18Well, I think, first of all, they would like to kind of hit back at some scepticism.
00:21I mean, I think there has been some rumors about when it's going to be done,
00:25if it's been scaled back, and we spoke to two senior executives
00:29and they have both dismissed that scepticism.
00:31They said this project was always one that was going to be delivered in phases.
00:34Phase one is very much on track.
00:36But like you said, I mean, 2.4 kilometres doesn't sound that big,
00:39but putting that into perspective, that's like,
00:41it's going to be the size of two football pitches side by side,
00:44and it's going to be half a kilometre tall.
00:47So it'd be like building 40 of the Burj Khalifa's,
00:49the world's tallest skyscrapers in that 2.4 kilometre block.
00:52So you can't do that overnight.
00:54So very much on track.
00:56And yeah, it will be delivered when it will be delivered, basically.
00:59Yeah, of course. And time for that World Cup, like you said.