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Hersman leaves NTSB, joins National Safety Council as president and CEO
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman is set to leave the agency in the coming weeks to join the National Safety Council as president and CEO, Politico reports. Hersman, who has been on the NTSB since 2004, will leave the agency on April 25, cutting short her third five-year term. Hersman is well-known for […]
March 12, 2014
Roadbuilding
Senate Commerce panel to meet on rail safety
A Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation panel is set to discuss rail safety next week. The Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security is scheduled to meet on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. for a hearing that looks at rail safety in the U.S. The hearing, titled “Enhancing […]
February 7, 2014
Roadbuilding
Rail safety among NTSB’s top 10 most wanted transportation improvements for 2014
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its 2014 Most Wanted List, which features the agency’s top 10 advocacy and awareness priorities for the year. For the first time, the agency has included safety in rail mass transit on the list. This follows a year of multiple rail accidents, including two Metro-North derailments (one […]
January 21, 2014
Roadbuilding
NTSB stops, delays thousands of investigations due to government shutdown
The federal government shutdown has been in effect for nearly two weeks and has so far resulted in 18,481 furloughs in the U.S. Department of Transportation and the suspension of most DOT programs not safety-related. Many DOT administrations have stopped social media and web interactions because no one is available to monitor them, and ARTBA […]
October 14, 2013
Roadbuilding
NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman to speak at Senate Commerce Committee shutdown hearing
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman will speak Friday at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the impacts of the government shutdown. The shutdown resulted in 18,481 furloughs in the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as the suspension of most programs not safety-related, the cessation of most DOT web […]
October 10, 2013
Roadbuilding
More than 200 Washington bridges are fracture-critical
More than 200 of Washington state’s bridges are classified as fracture-critical and could collapse if a key component of the bridge fails, according to KUOW. Of those bridges, at least three have been struck multiple times in the past five years, putting the bridges at a higher risk of collapsing. The Interstate 5 span that […]
July 17, 2013
Roadbuilding
Senate Transportation Committee discusses rail safety, NTSB calls for shunting use after track worker’s death
Following the May 28 death of a track worker who was struck by a Metro-North train in Connecticut, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has scheduled a hearing with the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for tomorrow at 10 a.m., where the committee will discuss ways to improve passenger and freight rail safety. The hearing […]
June 18, 2013
Roadbuilding
Daylight savings means dangerous drivers
Here comes daylight saving time. And with it, says the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),  a sudden wave of tired (read dangerous) drivers. “In one night, this will generate a 300 million-hour national sleep debt and in the few days it takes our bodies to adjust, our nation will accumulate over a billion hours of […]
March 7, 2013
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