Saudi will create the world's first car-free city, using only public transport

Riyadh, Ta. Monday, January 11, 2020

Saudi Arabia has announced the world's first car-free city. Saudi Kunwar Mohammed bin Salama himself made the announcement on TV. The city will be like a 170 km long and thin strip. Nowhere in the city will there be roads for cars or other vehicles, but there will be sidewalks for drivers. That way there will be no street anywhere.

Opposite it will be more than one type of uninterrupted automatic public transport. Saudi Arabia has allocated a whopping 500 500 billion for the Neom project. Due to the convenience of public transport, a person can get off the train-metro or other automatic transport and reach his home on foot.

The city road will also have 3 floors. The first floor will be used as a sidewalk, the lower floor will be used for service area and the lower floor will be used for public transport. Saudi Arabia intends to keep the city's carbon emissions at zero. The project will also create another four lakh jobs by 2030.

In this city with a population of up to one million, all the facilities will be set up in such a way that anyone can walk for five minutes, whether it is a school or a hospital. One has to walk a maximum of 20 minutes to get any facility.

All facilities and jobs in the city will be connected to Five-G internet. For this, artificial intelligence, robotic facility etc. will be widely used here. The project will spread over 10,000 square miles of vacant land on the shores of the Red Sea at the northwestern tip of the country.

Muhammad bin Salman does not usually give speeches on TV. But in a rare speech on the occasion, he said that 7 million people die every year from pollution. So now is the time to build the town as needed for the future. All the energy of the city will be renewable and will be generated completely pollution free.