Once upon a time, the main method of crossing the Yangtze and Jialing rivers was the cable cars, or ropeways, swinging high over the city from one hilltop to the other. Until 1960, there were no bridges crossing the Yangtze River around Chongqing.
Photo by Yeung Ming (2014). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
The picture above shows the remaining ropeway which crosses the Yangtze River, starting from the Yuzhong peninsula. It is still in use as transport, but mostly serves as a tourist attraction. In the top left corner, we can see the latest bridge of many which ousted the ropeways: the Dongshuimen Bridge. The Jialing cable cars (pictured below) ceased operating in December 2013, as they slowly fell out of use because of increasing alternative and easier routes, such as tunnels and, of course, bridges.
Photo by Clément Belleudy (2013). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
Tomorrow’s post will showcase some photos of the latest bridges being built in Chongqing.
