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Your morning transportation speed-read:

Fox News says Ray LaHood got it wrong on the reason for one of the recent firings of an air traffic controller.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is putting its headquarters up for sale.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says there will be more than 900 transportation projects under his spending plan.

D.C. drivers can't use their cellphones while they drive, but soon they'll able to use them to pay to park.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Kansas is increasing some of its speed limits to 75 miles an hour.

A bill to force the North Carolina state legislature to accept federal high-speed rail money reached the end of the line in a committee.

A ride on Atlanta's MARTA rail system turned violent for two Delta Airlines employees.

JetBlue says it now flies 100 flights per day out of Boston's Logan Airport.

This story was corrected from an earlier version at 4:55 p.m.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wouldn't want his granddaughter patted down by TSA.

Missouri's worried about having matching funds for transportation dollars.

New Jersey's considering letting trucks roam free on the Garden State Parkway.

Washington's proposed underground Dulles Airport Metro station is under review.

A bus that crashed in the Bronx and killed 15 people was not hit by a truck as the driver claimed, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.

The bus was carrying senior citizens back to New York City after a trip to a casino in Connecticut.

The NTSB released its preliminary findings into the March 17 crash that, along with other accidents in New Jersey and New Hampshire, prompted Congress to take up bus safety legislation. 

"The motorcoach driver stated that a truck-tractor semitrailer encroached into his lane, striking his vehicle," the NTSB report said. "A truck driver subsequently identified himself as a witness to the accident. NTSB investigators interviewed the truck driver and conducted a focused examination of the combination vehicle, including taking dimensional measurements of the truck-tractor and semitrailer. No evidence was found that would correspond to a potential area of contact between the bus and the combination vehicle."

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Your morning transportation speed-read:

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator John Pistole said a pat-down of a 6-year-old was within the scope of the agency's procedures, even as he and Congress now look to change them.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will deliver the commencement address at Boston College this year.

Connecticut is trying to get whatever high-speed rail money is left after the budget cuts.

Vermont bus drivers are on the verge of a strike.

Your morning transportation speed-rail:

IBM wants to think through drivers' commutes for them.

The parents of a 6-year-old girl are upset she was patted down by TSA.

Louisiana is the latest state to raise some of its speed limits.

Drivers in Detroit called in sick to protest proposed transportation budget cuts in Michigan.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday that random inspections of interstate passenger buses have resulted in almost 300 unsafe drivers or buses being pulled off the road.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) inspected 2,782 buses, LaHood said, and removed 262 of them. LaHood added that 156 drivers were given out-of-service citations.

Local law enforcement officials were working with FMCSA on the inspections. 

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A Cincinnati streetcar isn't going anywhere, thanks to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

V is for veto for Iowa's transportation spending bill.

The DOT will provide $319 million to rebuild roads and bridges in disaster-stricken areas.

Chicago will have to settle for a flight simulator, since it didn't get a NASA shuttle for its Adler Planetarium.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Quiet rail cars in Massachusetts passed their test runs.

Connecticut is getting $40 million for rail.

Airports are getting ready for new, bigger 747s to hit their runways.

Toyota's telling U.S. auto dealers the Japan earthquake could reduce the number of parts that are available this fall.

Washington Metrorail will receive $150 million in federal funding Republicans had sought to eliminate under the budget deal reached last week to avoid a government shutdown.

The Washington Post reports that although Democrats and Republicans agreed to cut $1.5 billion in high-speed rail funding to keep the government running, they spared Metro.

Department of Transportation officials could not immediately verify the Metro funding for The Hill. Lawmakers passed a short-term continuing resolution late last Friday to avoid a shutdown of the federal government, but legislative language is still being drafted in both chambers for a bill that would fund the government through the end of September. Details are emerging slowly.