Saudi Arabia has been 軍隊d to 規模 支援する its?$1.5trillion 計画（する）s for a 106-mile linear 砂漠 megacity, によれば 報告（する）／憶測s, in a humiliating climb 負かす／撃墜する for the kingdom.
The Line - part of the country's audacious and futuristic NEOM 事業／計画（する） - was meant to be home to around 1.5 million 居住（者）s by the end of the １０年間, with 計画（する）s to 最終的に 増加する its 十分な capacity to nine million people.
Now, によれば people familiar with the 事業／計画（する）, the 開発 will only stretch 1.5 miles and house より小数の than 300,000 居住（者）s by 2030, によれば a new 報告（する）／憶測 from Bloomberg 特記する／引用するing sources の近くに to the 事業／計画（する） and 文書s.
As a result of the 削減 to the construction of The Line, at least one 請負業者 has started 解任するing 労働者s it 雇うs on the 場所／位置, the 出版（物） has said.
素晴らしい 概念 images 解放（する）d by the kingdom in 2022 showed a 広大な, mirrored structure cutting through the 砂漠 近づく 水晶 blue ocean waters.
Saudi Arabia has been 軍隊d to 規模 支援する its $1.5trillion 計画（する）s for a 106-mile linear 砂漠 city (pictured in 概念 images), によれば 報告（する）／憶測s, in a humiliating 決定／判定勝ち（する） for the kingdom
The Line - part of the country's audacious and futuristic NEOM 事業／計画（する） - was meant to be 106 mile sin length and home to 1.5 million 居住（者）s by the end of the １０年間. によれば Bloom berg, the 計画（する）s have been 規模d 支援する, with The Line now 始める，決める to be just 1.5 miles
The Line is seen in a 概念 ビデオ 解放（する）d by Saudi Arabia, showing the two 広大な structures stretching off into the distance
A 地図／計画する shows where The Line was 始める，決める to be built, and how long it would have been.?Saudi 公式の／役人s said it would be built in 行う／開催する／段階s, and would 結局 cover a 106-mile stretch of 砂漠 along the coast of the Red Sea in the western Tabuk 州
It is one of fifteen 開発s that form the country's NEOM 事業／計画（する） - which also 含むs an 産業の city, ports and 観光旅行，事業 開発s - that have been 徐々に 発表するd by the kingdom since 2021.
But The Line was the jewel in 栄冠を与える Prince Mohammed 貯蔵所 Salman's '見通し 2030' 事業／計画（する）, which was 始める，決める in 動議 to diversify his country's oil 扶養家族 economy, 同様に as its society and culture, and 改善する the image it 事業／計画（する）s on the world 行う／開催する／段階.
The Kingdom said the 事業／計画（する）, which is 推定する／予想するd to cost $1.5 一兆, would be an '前例のない living experience' that 保存するs 'surrounding nature'.
The megacity was to feature two 平行の 超高層ビルs 延長するing across a 列 of 砂漠 and mountain 地形, with mirrored facades on the outside.
Saudi 公式の／役人s said it would be built in 行う／開催する／段階s, and would 結局 cover a 106-mile stretch of 砂漠 along the coast in the western?Tabuk 州 - with its Western tip pointing out over the Red Sea に向かって Egypt.
However, Bloomberg 報告（する）／憶測s that these 計画（する）s have now been 劇的な 規模d 支援する - with the 106 mile structure 存在 減ずるd to just 1.5 miles - a more than 98 パーセント 減少（する） in size.
It is not （疑いを）晴らす whether The Line will still feature its twin 超高層ビルs seen in the 概念 imagery, or if the whole 事業／計画（する） will have to be 再考するd, now that its size has been 減ずるd.
特記する／引用するing its sources, Bloomberg 報告（する）／憶測s that Saudi Arabia has not yet 認可するd NEOM's 2024 予算, and that its 広大な 支出 is beginning to 関心 公式の／役人s.
Some 事業／計画（する）s 輪郭（を描く）d in the 見通し 2030 are already 推定する／予想するd to be 延期するd past the end of the １０年間, with?大蔵大臣 Mohammed Al Jadaan 説 in December that longer is needed to build 'factories' and '十分な human 資源s.'
'The 延期する or rather the 拡張 of some 事業／計画（する）s will serve the economy,' he said.
NEOM was first 発表するd in 2017, with 栄冠を与える Prince Mohammed 貯蔵所 Salman (pictured) 配達するing a 贈呈 on The Line in July 2022
Pictured: Construction 労働者s are seen operating excavators in drone footag e 逮捕（する）d in 2022 when The Line 事業／計画（する） began
The 抱擁する ざん壕 can be seen going into the distance as 創立／基礎s for the incredible megacity are dug out in （映画の）フィート数 from 2022
Construction wor kers stand on the 辛勝する／優位 of a 広大な ざん壕 存在 dug for The Line megacity
NEOM was first 発表するd in 2017, with?栄冠を与える Prince Mohammed 貯蔵所 Salman 配達するing a 贈呈 on The Line in July 2021 - 逮捕（する）ing the attention of both city planner, architects and the general public around the world.
In its 初めの design, if built in the UK, The Line would have been able to stretch between London to Birmingham, or even from London into フラン.
In US-条件, it was longer than the distance between New York and Philadelphia.
However, unlike city sprawls we are accustomed to today, the 広大な metropolis would have been 含む／封じ込めるd in two mirrored structures - each rising 500 feet above sea level, taller than the Empire 明言する／公表する building - that would stretch out across the 砂漠.
At just 200 yards wide, The Line was ーするつもりであるd to be Saudi Arabia's answer to unchecked and wasteful 都市の sprawl, 層ing homes, schools and parks on 最高の，を越す of each other in what planners 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 '無 Gravity Urbanism'.
宣伝の 構成要素 says 居住（者）s will have 'all daily needs' reachable within a five-minute walk, while also having 接近 to other perks like outdoor skiing 施設s and 'a high-速度(を上げる） rail with an end-to-end 輸送 of 20 minutes'.
For a train to travel 106 miles in 20 minutes, it would need to be able to travel at 318 miles per hour - 16 miles per hour faster than the Beijing to Shanghai 速度(を上げる） line, one of the fastest 鉄道 lines in the world.
In his 贈呈, Prince Mohammed sketched out an even more ambitious 見通し, 述べるing a car-解放する／自由な utopia that would become the 惑星's most liveable city.
分析家s 公式文書，認めるd at the time, though, that 計画（する）s for NEOM have changed course over the years, fuelling 疑問s about whether The Line will ever become reality.
It was once touted as a 地域の 'Silicon Valley', a biotech and 数字表示式の 中心 spread over 10,000 square miles.
Pictured: 概念 art showing the inside of Saudi Arabia's The Line megacity
At just 200 yards wide, The Line is ーするつもりであるd to be Saudi Arabia's answer to unchecked and wasteful 都市の sprawl, 層ing homes, schools and parks on 最高の，を越す of each other in what planners 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 '無 Gravity Urbanism'
The Line's 広大な construction was 始める，決める to 延長する from the heart of another planned Red Sea megacity, a plank of 栄冠を与える Prince Mohammed 貯蔵所 Salman's 企て，努力，提案 to diversify the 湾 明言する／公表する's oil-扶養家族 economy - to the ocean
The?futuristic megacity in Saudi Arabia was 始める，決める to feature two 大規模な, mirror-encased 超高層ビルs that 延長する over 砂漠 and mountain 地形
But it was also a 乗り物 for reimagining 都市の life on a 足跡 of just 34 square kilometres, and 演説（する）／住所ing what Prince Mohammed 述べるs as 'liveability and 環境の crises'.
The 場所／位置 will be 力／強力にするd by 100 パーセント renewable energy and feature 'a year-一連の会議、交渉／完成する temperate micro-気候 with natural ventilation', the 宣伝の ビデオ said - something that would be a necessity considering 気温s in Saudi Arabia can 範囲 from 27 degrees to 43 degrees.
'The 概念 has morphed so much from its 早期に conception that it's いつかs hard to 決定する its direction: 規模ing 負かす／撃墜する, 規模ing up, or making an 積極的な turn sideways,' said Robert Mogielnicki of the Arab 湾 明言する／公表するs 学校／設ける in Washington, に引き続いて the 贈呈 in 2022.
Unsurprisingly, The Line - and NEOM in general - has 終始一貫して raised eyebrows for 提案するd 繁栄するs like 飛行機で行くing taxis and robot maids, with architects and 経済学者s 尋問 its 実現可能.?
公式の／役人s had earlier said The Line's 全体にわたる 全住民 would 最高の，を越す one million, but Prince Mohammed said the number would 現実に 攻撃する，衝突する 1.2million by 2030 (other 報告（する）／憶測s have 示唆するd 1.5 million) before climbing even その上の by 2045.
In a 宣伝の ビデオ 解放（する）d by the Kingdom, it was 示唆するd that nine million people could live in The Line at 十分な capacity.
The 注目する，もくろむ-popping total is part of a hoped-for 全国的な 全住民 にわか景気 that Prince Mohammed said would be necessary to make Saudi Arabia - the world's biggest 天然のまま 輸出業者 - an 経済的な powerhouse.
The goal for 2030 is to have 50 million people - half Saudis and half foreigners - living in the kingdom, up from 概略で 34 million today.
By 2040 the 的 is 100 million people, he said in 2022.
'That's the main 目的 of building NEOM, to raise the capacity of Saudi Arabia, get more 国民s and more people in Saudi Arabia. And since we are doing it from nothing, why should we copy normal citie s?' Prince Mohammed said.
居住（者）s of the 事業／計画（する） were 始める，決める to have 'all daily needs' reachable within a five-minute walk, while also having 接近 to other perks like outdoor skiing 施設s and 'a high-速度(を上げる） rail with an end-to-end 輸送 of 20 minutes'
In a 宣伝の ビデオ 解放（する）d by the Kingdom, it was 示唆するd that nine million people could live in The Line (pictured in 概念 art) at 十分な capacity
Salman is hoping to 広大な／多数の／重要な a 砂漠 community known as Neom (pictured in 概念 imagery)
The 実現可能 of the 事業／計画（する） had long been called into question.?
Architect and 都市の planner Etienne Bou-Abdo said of the 概念 images last year: 'the 3D images 現在のd are not classical 3D architecture images', and the designers of the 事業／計画（する） 'have rather called upon ビデオ game designers'.
He 明言する／公表するd that the 計画（する） 含むs 'a lot of 科学（工学）技術 that we don't have today'.
A number of The Line's 重要な features, 特に those 関係のある to energy and 輸送（する）,?are based on 科学（工学）技術s that do not 存在する even in 原型 form.
While Saudi 公式の／役人s will have been left red-直面するd with the news that the 事業／計画（する） is 存在 規模d 支援する, it will certainly come as a 救済 to conservationists who raised the alarm over The Line's?環境の 衝撃.
専門家s 警告するd last year that the 広大な mirrored surface would be a 'death 罠（にかける）' for for millions of birds?migrating between Europe and Africa each year.
As Saudi Arabia touted the finished 事業／計画（する）s sustainability 信任状, 研究員s identified the construction 事業／計画（する） itself as one of the 15 most 圧力（をかける）ing 自然保護 問題／発行するs to watch in 2024.?
And 専門家s have said in a 熟考する／考慮する 解放（する）d in December that a combination of factors mean it 提起する／ポーズをとるs a 抱擁する 危険 to birds that migrate over Saudi Arabia every year.
These 含む the mirrored facades, the city's orientation and the 意向 to have 勝利，勝つd turbines along the 最高の，を越す of it.
'Birds 飛行機で行くing into tall windows is a serious problem, and this is a building that is 500m high going across Saudi Arabia, with windmills on 最高の，を越す,' Professor William Sutherland, director of 研究 in Cambridge University's zoology department, told The Times .
'It's also 肉親，親類d of like a mirror so you do n't really see it,' Sutherland, who led the 熟考する／考慮する, 追加するd. 'So unless they do something about it, there's a serious 危険 that there could be lots of 損失 to 移住する birds.'
Nightingales, wheatears, larks, sandgrouse and 海がめ doves are all 種類 of bird that use the 移住する 大勝する which could be 影響する／感情d.
Other 種類 known to travel that way 含む the Egyptian vulture and saker falcon, both of which are 危うくするd globally, The Times 報告（する）／憶測d.?
Treyam - another NEOM 事業／計画（する） 発表するd last month - is an 'elevated 港／避難所' - a 高級な 訴える手段／行楽地, stretching over a 砂漠 lagoon, with a nearly half-キロメーター long swimming pool on its roof
Looking like something from the 未来, the コンビナート／複合体 will stretch across a 砂漠 lagoon
NEOM is 概略で the size of Belgium and 据えるd on the west coast of Saudi Arabia?
The 出版（物） said the area The Line is 始める，決める to 占領する is already a bottleneck for an 概算の 2.1million birds that travel between Europe and Africa every autumn.
It 公式文書，認めるd that every year, 988million birds are killed in 衝突／不一致s with buildings in the US alone, with the 危険 設立する to be higher in areas with glass or mirrored buildings.
The news of the 規模-支援する comes just weeks after?Saudi Arabia 発表するd its 最新の wildly ambitious NEOM 事業／計画（する）: The world's longest sky pool built on the roof of a 250-room 訴える手段／行楽地.?
Treyam - 発表するd in March with more computer 生成するd 概念 images - is 存在 法案d as an 'elevated 港／避難所' - a 高級な コンビナート／複合体, stretching over a 砂漠 lagoon, with a nearly half-kilometre-long swimming pool on its roof.
