USA Today's Alan Levin reports on a three-day hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board into the safety of metro public transit systems (a hearing brought about by last June's subway crash in Washington): Peter Goelz, the NTSB's former managing ...

Businesses hate it when they get regulated, and it's understandable -- because every change a company faces can force it to change its operations, and that means losing money, in the short run at least.  But when businesses -- in ...

The idea is simple -- since the federal government invests taxpayers' money in transit systems around the country, it wants to exercise more oversight, particularly on safety issues.  Rachel Swarns reports in the New York Times that federal officials are concerned:  As subway and light rail systems try to ...

Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post looks into the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the plane-helicopter crash over the Hudson River in August 2009 and a growing dispute between the NTSB and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the labor union that represents air traffic controllers. The union ...

Mary Pat Flaherty of the Washington Post reports on recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board to make medical evacuations by helicopter safer and to limit the use of Medicare reimbursements to helicopter evaluations that follow stricter safety standards "that Medicare would develop." A fatal medevac helicopter crash ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has identified a cause of the Washington, D.C. Metro crash that killed nine people last month, reports the Washington Post's Lena H. Sun:

Metro's automatic train control system relies on track circuits to maintain a safe distance between ...

Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times looks today at the federal investigation of a train crash in Los Angeles this September that killed 25. Katharine O'Leary Higgins, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, has insisted in testimony that the crash happened because the conductor and ...

Since a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in August 2007, killing thirteen, there has been a bitter struggle between federal authorities and local politicians over what caused the collapse. The National Transportation Safety Board has said it was a flaw in the structure’s 1960’s-era design, while Minnesota state ...

Matthew Wald of the New York Times summarizes the controversy in determining what caused last summer’s Minneapolis bridge collapse. The usually credible National Transportation Safety Board is arguing that the collapse was caused by the mid-1960’s design. A Minnesota state agency, Congressman and much of the public are ...