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.
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.
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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.
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The cableway was built back in 1999 to help residents of rural Liangshan County cross the Jinsha to neighboring Yunnan province, cutting down the trip from a full day to only a few pulse-pounding minutes.
Cableways like this used to be a common way for residents to get from place to place in mountainous Yunnan province, but recently local governments have been replacing them with less perilous means of travel. They are going to replace it with a boring bridge down river.
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However, the bridge over the Jinsha won’t be completed until the end of the year, and isn’t expected to open until next May. So, our more adventurous readers will want to hurry over soon, while they still have the time.
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