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Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore
(www.theguardian.com)
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The project is being scaled back, not paused until existing sections can be completed.
Yes but you seem to be mixing up 2 parts of their statements ... The one you linked is paywalled so I'm not sure if it's what's saying it, but if you look at their original statement, the scale back and the 2.4km were two seperate parts
They expect 2.4km to be completed by 2030
They scaled back the total excepted population from 1.5m to 300k
That means the total excepted length should still be much longer than 2.4km because I believe it's still expected to connect to the airport which is over 10km from the current stage
Developers are already firing workers, the "scaled back" wording is just a nice way of saying they fucked up and now have to find a way to graciously abandon the project. There are parts of the Neom project that are viable, but the Line was always a pipe dream that's not based in reality.
And even if they try to force a plan to expand it past 2.4km, with the project scope being reduced 5 times it actually creates existential issues, not just lowers the amount of people that it can house. By the project's own description, for it to work it needs to have everything integrated proportionally and when you scale it down 5 times, half the life sustaining systems won't be able to operate.