China's tallest cableway to become a distant memory

Arguably one of China's most harrowing forms of local transportation is set to be retired. [Photo: thecover.cn]

The Yinggeliu cableway, straddling the Jinsha River in Liangshan County in southwest China's Sichuan province, is going to be replaced with a bridge, reports the China Youth Daily Online. [Photo: thecover.cn]

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. [Photo: thecover.cn]

The gondola, similar in design to a shark cage, moves along a pair of steel wires some 400 meters above the Jinsha River. [Photo: thecover.cn]

The "slip rope to bridge" project was launched in May of 2013, and is expected to be completed in the near future, the China Youth Daily Online is reporting. [Photo: thecover.cn]