{"id":394687,"date":"2021-01-12T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394687"},"modified":"2021-01-12T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:15:35","slug":"saudi-arabia-plans-car-free-road-free-city-for-future-beyond-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-plans-car-free-road-free-city-for-future-beyond-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia plans car-free, road-free city for future beyond oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince unveiled his latest vision for a future beyond oil in the kingdom: a car- and road-free city with zero carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The 170 kilometer-long (106 miles) development called \u201cThe Line&#8221; will be part of a previously-announced $500 billion mega-project called \u201cNeom,&#8221; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a televised speech on Sunday. Construction is planned to start in the first quarter of this year. A news release described The Line as a walkable \u201cbelt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature.&#8221; It said the city would have 1 million residents and create 380,000 jobs by 2030. It didn\u2019t provide details on the plan\u2019s expected cost or how it would be funded.<\/p>\n<p>Neom is the crown jewel of Prince Mohammed\u2019s plan to diversify the economy of the world\u2019s largest crude exporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince unveiled his latest vision for a future beyond oil in the kingdom: a car- and road-free city with zero carbon emissions. The 170 kilometer-long (106 miles) development called \u201cThe Line&#8221; will be part of a previously-announced $500 billion mega-project called \u201cNeom,&#8221; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a televised speech on Sunday. Construction is planned to start in the first quarter of this year. A news release described The Line as a walkable \u201cbelt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature.&#8221; It said the city would have 1 million residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}