MORGANTOWN — First built at West Virginia University as an experimental project, the iconic Personal Rapid Transit system, or PRT, is marking 50 years of transporting students, faculty and staff, and visitors across the Morgantown campus.

WVUbwill celebrate the milestone with a series of special events Nov. 3-8.

“The PRT is a quintessential and critical part of our campus community — a recognizable, bedrock piece of infrastructure that also stands as an ongoing example of the ingenuity that defines Mountaineers,” WVU President Michael T. Benson said.

“For generations, students, faculty and staff, and visitors have made their way to class, to sporting events, or to meet friends in the original PRT cars that run between the Downtown, Evansdale, and Health Sciences areas of campus along wi

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