The hot weather has temporarily idled all but one line on West Virginia Universitys Personal Rapid Transit.

The air conditioning is down at the PRT s Beechurst Station, making it too hot to run the electronics that power the computer-operated people mover, said Bob Hendershot, assistant director of public safety and transportation services at the University.

A new air conditioner compressor has been ordered and could be installed as early as this afternoon, meaning the PRT could resume operations Wednesday (July 3), Hendershot said.

Meantime, all lines except the Towers-to-Health Sciences Center run will be idle, and the University will be running extra buses to the Beechurst, Engineering and Towers stations to accommodate people affected by the disruption in service, he added.

Begun in 1975 as a demonstration project, the PRT consists of 73 blue-and-gold cars that move along 3.8 miles of elevated guideway connecting downtown Morgantown with the Evansdale and Health Sciences campuses.