Morgantown · since 1975 · five stations
You are late, it is raining, and the status page says running. You get to Beechurst and the gate is dark. That page has not changed since May — and everything built on it has been repeating the same answer ever since. This one asks the people already standing on the platform.
Personal Rapid Transit
Running normally
All five stations are operating. No official service interruption is active.
Why this exists
WVU's status page stopped updating last spring. It did not break and it did not show an error — it just kept repeating the last thing it knew, sounding completely sure. Every app that reads it has been passing that along ever since. Nothing looks wrong, which is exactly why nobody caught it.
Stated with total confidence. No age on it, nothing to check it against, and no sign it has been the same answer for months.
Asks four places, uses the freshest, and lets riders on the platform overrule a channel that has gone quiet — when enough of them say the same thing.
It never tells you something it cannot back up. If all it has is the timetable, it says “should be running” — never “running”. The one rule everything else follows
How it decides
Always there, and never proof of anything. It says what should be happening, so it is never allowed to sound certain.
If WVU Transportation says something, that beats a guess. A morning post is taken as the day's word and trusted until the day ends — not for a fixed few hours, and never into tomorrow.
The only ones who can see a gate that closed twenty minutes ago. It counts people who were actually there, and who have been right before.
Maybe, probably, confirmed. Only the last one changes the headline — you can see the rest without the app pretending to be sure.
Reporting
Every gate carries a board showing whether it is open and what is boarding. So reporting is not diagnosing anything — it is copying a sign, in one tap, from the station you are standing at. Platform closed. Gate down. Delay. Maintenance. The app knows where you are, so it never asks.
Your location names the platform. No list to scroll before you can say anything, and a picker waiting if the signal is gone.
“Long wait to Engineering” while Towers is fine. The PRT runs point to point, so the app treats it that way.
Somebody across the country cannot report your station closed. Confirming an outage takes people who were actually near the line.
Alerts
A notification only when several riders agree something is down, never for a delay, and never outside PRT hours — a phone that buzzes for nothing gets its notifications switched off, and then the real outage is missed too.
One rider is not enough. Crowding and delays stay in the app where you can weigh them yourself.
Your phone can watch the five stations and check the moment you arrive — and say nothing at all unless something is wrong.
Silence is the normal state. That is what makes the rare buzz worth reading.
Questions
PRT Status answers that live. It ranks four sources — WVU's own status endpoint, the official @WVUPRTstatus account, the published timetable, and corroborated rider reports — shows whichever is freshest, and always names which one answered. WVU's endpoint has not changed since May 2026, so anything repeating it alone cannot tell you about today.
During term the PRT runs 6:30 AM to 10:15 PM on weekdays and 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturdays, and does not run on Sundays. Hours change for university closures and recesses, so the app shows the published window for each of the next seven days rather than one fixed timetable.
Mountain Line buses serve the same campuses. PRT Status lists the scheduled departures from the stops near each PRT station and ranks them by when you would actually be moving — walk time plus wait — rather than by which stop is nearest. Those times are timetabled, not live vehicle positions.
Try it
The full app, in a tab — everything except the notifications, which a browser cannot deliver once you close it.