Tuesday, November 16, 2004

One Final Trip – On the Express

Those of you who have been to Morgantown, the home of my alma mater WVU, are familiar with the PRT system. The PRT is an unmanned monorail-type system that ties together the older downtown campus and the newer Evansdale campus. I could never quite figure why it completely bypassed the law school, though – ‘suppose they didn’t like us? Anyway, Samy E.G. Elias, who designed and oversaw the building of the system, passed away this weekend. While the PRT didn’t serve as the prototype that many people hoped it would, it is a very efficient means of mass transit for a small university town. Elias’s legacy will certainly live on.

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