THE LINE Failed. The Metro Didn't: Inside Riyadh's Transit Revolution
Автор: Riyadh Mirage
Загружено: 2026-01-13
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This is not just a story about trains and tunnels.
It's a story about whether a city can reinvent itself.
Riyadh was built for cars. For fifty years, that's all it knew. Now it has the world's longest driverless metro — a technological marvel running beneath streets designed for automobiles.
We trace the project from its 2013 conception through years of delays and skepticism to its 2024 opening. We examine the engineering challenges of tunneling through 160-million-year-old limestone. We visit the Zaha Hadid-designed station that has become a new public space in a city that forgot what walking meant.
But we also ask harder questions.
Who built this metro? Who can afford to ride it? And can infrastructure alone change a culture that has been shaped by cars for half a century?
THE LINE promised a 170-kilometer mirror city and delivered 2.4 kilometers.
The metro promised 176 kilometers and delivered 176 kilometers.
What was the difference?
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