Morgantown · since 1975 · five stations
Every other way to check the PRT repeats one source. That source has not changed since May — still answering, still confident, still wrong. This one asks the people standing on the platform, and tells you which answer it used.
Personal Rapid Transit
Running normally
All five stations are operating. No official service interruption is active.
The problem
WVU's own status endpoint stopped updating in the spring. It did not go down, it did not error — it just kept serving the last thing it knew, and every app built on it kept repeating that answer with total confidence. Nothing looked broken. That is the worst kind of broken.
Reported with full confidence. No age shown, nothing to check it against, nobody noticing it has not moved.
Four sources ranked, the freshest one wins, and riders can outvote an official channel that has gone quiet — which takes several people, over several minutes.
The app never asserts something it cannot stand behind. If the only thing it has is the timetable, it says “should be running” — not “running”. The one rule everything else is built on
How one answer is built
The floor. Always available, never observed — it says what should be happening, so it is never allowed to sound certain.
Transportation saying something beats anything derived. A morning update is treated as the day's word and trusted until the service day ends — not for a fixed few hours, and never into tomorrow.
The only source that can see a gate close twenty minutes ago. Weighted by how often each person has been right, and by whether they were actually there.
Possible, probable, confirmed. Only the top tier moves the headline; the rest is visible 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.
Try it
The full app, in a tab — everything except the notifications, which a browser cannot deliver once you close it.