Subject: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board

• "Bodies Fall Out of Sky As Planes Collide" - More Reasons to Never Visit Corona, CA.

  January 21, 2008

• We'll Never Truly Know if Cosco Busan Pilot was Blitzed on Presciption Pills -- And if Someone Else Hit the Bridge Tomorrow, We'd Also Likely Never Know

  U.S. Coast GuardYou can't blame illegal drugs for this -- but how about legal drugs? And how about the next time?An eye-opening article in today's San Francisco Examiner recounted the mountains of hard-core prescription narcotics picked up by Cosco Busan pilot John Cota in the months before he directed the ship into the Bay Bridge. The article was culled from a jaw-droppingly thorough National Transportation and Safety Board investigation into the troubled pilot's medical history. You can read t

  March 6, 2009

• Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

  The enormous costs -- human and financial -- of bad drivers and lax discipline at the San Francisco Municipal Railway

  August 6, 2003

• Regulating Change

  December 27, 2000

• Mulch

  November 13, 1996

• If You Ever Wondered What Government Would Do After Plane Burst Into Flames at SFO -- Well, Here's Your Answer

  Webcast of government meeting forthcoming!Anyone who's ever wondered -- even for a moment -- what the official state response would be to his or her plane bursting into flames on the tarmac ... anyone? Bueller? ... can now glean the answers. The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, June 30 in the nation's capital regarding a 2008 incident at San Francisco International Airport when a Boeing 767 burst into flames while on the runway. No one was injured on th

  June 26, 2009

• DMV: Operator In Muni Train Wreck Ought to Have His Commercial and Personal Driver's Licenses Revoked

  The DMV's next target...If you plowed your car into the back of a Muni train and told authorities afterward that you must have blacked out, odds are you wouldn't be motoring anywhere for quite some time. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the same goes for those who black out and pilot their trains into a Muni train. DMV spokesman Armando Botello confirmed SF Weekly's query regarding Henry Gray, the operator of the L-Taraval train who claimed he blacked out just prior to colliding wi

  July 21, 2009

• State Director Says S.F. Doesn't Participate in Abandoned Boat Program -- Which Is News to S.F. Official Who Has Already Recieved and Spent the Money

  http://englishrussia.com/?p=1788Well, the state ain't paying for that...​Earlier today, we ran a story about how, while it's no Truk Lagoon boats sink in San Francisco Bay more often than you might guess. Yet getting even an incomplete count of how often vessels slip beneath the waves here was also harder than you might guess. There's no one list titled "Ships that Sank in San Francisco Bay." We called the Coast Guard, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Safety Board,

  August 19, 2009

• On Time -- Ha! -- For Your Commute: Muni Pain-O-Meter V. 2.0

  Jim Herd​See Original Version Here! Pain Level: 0.4 -- Your Muni driver makes "Derail -- is de thing de train run on" joke. 0.8 -- He makes that joke -- and you have to deboard your derailed train. 1.1 -- I've never sat next to someone eating with chopsticks on the bus before...1.4 -- Hey! Once you drop the won-ton into my crotch it's mine.1.7 -- There's no better place to choose the ring tone for your cell phone than a crowded train full of surly, 8:15 a.m. commuters...2.1 -- Hey, it's 42 deg

  November 18, 2009