Arguably one of China's most harrowing forms of local transportation is set to be retired. The Yinggeliu cableway, straddling the Jinsha River in Liangshan County in southwest China's Sichuan province, is going to be replaced with a bridge. Locals in Liangshan County have been forced to use the cableway for years to get across the Jinsha River, riding in an open-air steel gondola. The gondola, similar in design to a shark cage, moves along a pair of steel wires some 400 meters above the Jinsha River. The "slip rope to bridge" project was launched in May of 2013, and is expected to be completed in the near future. (Photo: China News Service/Xu Xiangdong)
