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A PRT looks at 50: WVU's 'Ride of the Future' still moving people

MORGANTOWN – They would never admit it, but the folks responsible for keeping West Virginia University’s little blue Personal Rapid Transit cuboids (PRT) plugging along must certainly be embroiled in a kind of love-hate relationship. One of those, ‘Sure, he can be a cantankerous ...

Status of 2024 earmarks uncertain

MORGANTOWN -- The continuing resolution signed into law this past week averted a government shutdown, but may have closed the door on a number of projects across West Virginia. As previously reported, the temporary spending plan did not include any fiscal year 2025 congressionally directed ...

Second WVU student injured in rock slide sues

One of those injured in last February's rock slide on Monongahela Boulevard has sued the West Virginia University Board of Governors. Maceon Wheeler was a passenger on the PRT when a rock slide that originated on WVU property rolled down the hillside and "violently crashed into and through ...

WVU spending nearly $4 million on buses this semester

West Virginia University is spending close to $4 million on extra buses this semester to ensure its Morgantown students are able to make it back and forth between the Downtown, Health Sciences and Evansdale campuses. The extra buses became a necessary expenditure when university officials ...

No PRT this fall

MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University will not be running its blue and yellow Personal Rapid Transit cars during the upcoming semester out of concerns about possibly spreading COVID-19 to students returning to campus next month. Instead, the university said it plans on using more buses – ...