News21 Student Initiative Takes Critical Look at National Transportation Safety Board

msnbc.com and The Washington Post will publish a 23-story multimedia package this week from News21, a journalism initiative funded by the Carnegie Corp. of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity.

Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America investigated transportation safety in America and the National Transportation Safety Board, with some startling results:

• The NTSB has essentially given up on 1,952 of its safety recommendations, or one of every six it has made since 1967.

• Federal agencies, states, and transportation industries are taking longer to act on NTSB recommendations, with the average number of years to implement them rising from 3.4

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