PowerPoint Show by Andrew

The city of La Paz, Bolivia, has long struggled with transportation issues. Steep terrain, high density, and narrow streets have resulted in years of traffic nightmares for fleets of minibuses and private taxis.

In the past two years, the government has worked to alleviate this by building the largest urban cable-car system in the world.

Currently La Paz has three urban ropeway lines in operation, stretching over 10 kilometers, with plans to triple the size of the network. The city recently announced six new lines, which will extend the aerial system to 30 kilometers and carry up to 27,000 passengers an hour.

A cable-car system links the city center of La Paz with its neighbor El Alto, Bolivia, photographed on June 2, 2014.

People sit inside cable cars of the green line, an urban ropeway running between El Alto and La Paz, at a station in La Paz on December 4, 2014.

A cable car between La Paz and El Alto passes above a neighborhood in La Paz, Bolivia, on October 10, 2014.

In this June 2, 2014 photo, two women ride above La Paz in a cable car that links the city center with its neighbor, El Alto.

A mother and child ride in a cable car over La Paz on October 10, 2014.

A view from a cable car on the newly inaugurated green line between La Paz and El Alto on December 4, 2014.

Cable cars are lined up before being installed by a Bolivian Air Force (FAB) helicopter for the Red Line cable car system in La Paz on January 7, 2014.

A cable car moves above La Paz on October 10, 2014.

A woman watches a cable car between La Paz and El Alto.

In this June 2, 2014 photo, indigenous Aymara ride in a cable car that links La Paz with its neighbor El Alto.

A woman looks at the city of La Paz from the Jacha Qhatu cable car station in El Alto on July 23, 2015.

The shadow of a cable car falls on a building in the Chijini district of La Paz, as it travels past on July 23, 2015.

Cable cars travel above La Paz on October 10, 2014.

Cable cars pass overhead La Paz’s district of Kota Uma on July 23, 2015.

A partial view of the capital city of La Paz, taken from inside a cable car on October 10, 2014.

An Aymara woman rides in a cable car on April 8, 2014.