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NVTC About
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 Historical
Timeline
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NVTC has played
a vital role in the development of the transit systems that
serve Northern Virginia today. Just take a look…
- 1964 -- General Assembly
of Virginia creates the Northern Virginia Transportation
District.
- 1966 – Interstate
compact forms the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (WMATA)
- 1969 – NVTC’s Shirley
highway bus project gets its start with bus service on
an exclusive bus-way.
- 1974 – Five General
Assembly members are added to NVTC, which then goes on
record to support Metrorail extension to Dulles.
- 1975 – Federal transit
operating assistance becomes available to supplement
local and state resources and NVTC secures $4 million.
- 1976 -- Metrorail opens
for business.
- 1980 – The General
Assembly provides a two percent motor fuels tax within
NVTC’s district for Metrorail operating funds.
- 1984 – NVTC pursues
commuter rail service in the I-95 corridor
(Fredericksburg) and the I-66 corridor (Manassas).
- 1990 – Loudoun County
joins NVTC.
- 1992 – The Virginia
Railway Express (VRE) begins service.
- 1994 – NVTC completes a
study documenting a 19.2% return on state investments in
Metrorail through 2010.
- 1996 – NVTC wins the
American Public Transportation Association’s
Government Agency Transit Achievement Award.
- 2001 – NVTC sponsors a
regional farebox initiative that will make local bus
systems and VRE compatible with WMATA using SmarTrip
card technology.
- 2002 – NVTC sponsors a
Transit & Technology Expo highlighting the latest
technologies being implemented within the region’s
transit systems.
- 2004 - The General
Assembly adds NVTC's 20th board member
For a detailed chronology of
NVTC’s accomplishments, please refer to the NVTC
Handbook, Appendix
G.
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