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Posted 02 August 2015 - 05:52 AM

CBS news, 7/31:
 

 

NTSB's "long battle" to keep U.S. travelers safe

 

NTSB are the initials you hear most often after a disaster on the road, rails or in the skies.

 

"We are the investigators," NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart told CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg. "We go to the transportation accident scenes to figure out what went wrong and then make recommendations to try to prevent it from happening again."

 

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But many of the NTSB's most urgent recommendations to federal agencies and the industries they are supposed to regulate get little attention. So, to create public awareness, the NTSB started a "Most Wanted List" 25 years ago.

 

Surprisingly, there are items from 1990 that are still on the list.

 

"Positive train control is a good example of that," Hart said.

 

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