1964 • Urban Mass Transit Act of 1964 paves the way for transit expansion nationwide • Transportation District Act of 1964 creates • NVTC September 1: Initial Commission meeting • NVTC starts work on rapid transit system
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 • Endorse proposed rail rapid transit line • WMATA compact approved • WMATA o cially created • Metro planning begins! • Resolution to start • Outer Beltway Location Committee established • First WMATA board members selected • Right-of-Way preserved Metrorail construction • Washington and Old Dominion Railway for future Metrorail contacted for possible commuter rail line
1973 1972 1971 1970 • NVTC sets transit fares, routes and service levels in NoVA • 3 new bus routes and 20 new buses for the Shirley • Metro groundbreaking, • Grant to build nation’s rst transit way: 1974 • NVTC starts Computeride--a computerized carpool program Highway Bus project Shirley Expressway Shirley Highway Bus project • WMATA builds rst bus shelter – From 1974 to 1986 WMATA builds 828 bus shelters in the region • “Citizens First in Transportation" policy creates the Regional • First “fringe” parking lots – later “Park & Ride • Rosslyn pedestrian • NVTC coordinates Metro station site • NVTC's transfers Computeride to COG to merge with their growing carpool program Citizens Advisory Committee lots” - at the future Spring eld Metrorail station bridge opens location and architectural design • NVTC coordinates Fairfax County's new bus program establishing a $100,000 fund to grant to • NVTC supports providing 3 computers for Fairfax, Arlington and site (400 spaces) and Huntington Metrorail • Aerial tour of NoVA with legislators to “any legitimate agency” to provide bus service – service later becomes Fairfax Connector Alexandria for tra c signalization station site (150 spaces). Parking = 25-cents see urban sprawl and tra c congestion • Legislation allows transit in the Dulles Airport Road median connecting the airport with Metro
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 • NVTC begins receiving state funds • First 4.6 miles of the Metrorail • NVTC coordinates bike trails • Supports installing bike lockers at Virginia Metrorail • Orange line begins service • NVTC creates a nancial plan to com- • New Ridesharing Demonstration • NVTC receives $4M in federal transit system open and 51,000 with Metro stations to Ballston – adds 4 new plete the 101-mile Metrorail system Project to promote ridesharing in operating funds for NoVA passengers ride free between • Sponsors Dulles Airport • NVTC contacts Southern Railway about service from stations: Court House, • NVTC secures 2% fuels tax for Metro. the I-66 corridor and establish an • Supports Northern Virginia Regional 5 Red Line stations from Rhode Access Demonstration project Culpeper, Manassas and Burke Centre to King Street Clarendon, Virginia Sq.-GMU The rst month's tax receipts for July, employer-based ridesharing Park Authority to secure the Wash- Island Ave to Farragut North to improve transportation Metrorail in Alexandria and Ballston and adds 2.63 1980 ($629,656) are forwarded to program ington and Old Dominion (W&OD) service to and from Metrorail • NVTC receives $1 million grant for WMATA's purchase of miles to the system WMATA on October 1 right-of-way for hiking and biking – advanced design buses, new wheelchair lifts, garage, later the W&OD Trail shop and o ce equipment, and project management
1985 1983 1982 1986 • NVTC supports I-66 HOV-4 restrictions until new • Orange Line grows by 9.11 miles with opening of East Falls Church, West Falls • Public hearings on Orange Line opening to Vienna • NVTC promotes ridesharing in NOVA with 1984 Dulles Toll Road is opened promotional mailings for I-66 opening on Church, Dunn Loring and Vienna stations • Secures access for CUE buses at Vienna Metro station • Alexandria DASH begins service • NVTC promotes ways to increase Metro ridership December 22, compiling a Commuter Directory, • Study of the impact of state aid to Metrorail on the state economy con rms a 13% • Created rst computerized cost calculator for fares • NVTC o ce electric typewriters replaced in NOVA: bus stop information and weekend encouraging vanpools - providing no interest ROI for transit • 2-year budget is adopted for 8-train, peak-period with personal computers ash passes loans of $750 and exploring parking for carpool • New shuttle service in Tysons Corner connects to West Falls Church Metro station service. Master Agreement negotiations begin • Bus Service Coordination Plan improves • NVTC receives $140,790 (state) for experimental and vanpool staging and storage • NVTC proposes a new Northern Virginia entity to help set priorities: later the transit service and e ciency bus service from West Falls Church Metrorail Transportation Coordinating Council • Start development of a commuter rail project station to Rosslyn, to begin early in 1984 along two lines (Manassas and Fredericksburg)
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 • Studied an integrated telephone 1992 • Metrorail sets record ridership of 564,265 trips • Opened Transit Store at Ballston • Metro adds 4-story, 1,300 space garage at Vienna station • Blue Line opens from King Street • Launched VRE to Manassas and info system for WMATA and local • Metrobus carries two billionth rider • 25th Anniversary symposium explores • Loudoun County joins NVTC to Van Dorn Street in Alexandria, Fredericksburg service bus systems. Leads to adding Metrorail carries one-billionth rider Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems • Commission sends delegation to Brazil to investigate railcar bids 3.57 mile extension brings system • Annual report on the Transportation local transit fare, schedule and • NVTC receives $750,000 (federal) to plan purchase and new toll technologies • $79M NVTC bond issue closes on February 7, 1990 to 79 miles and 67 stations Service Coordination Plan, includes 27 route information through of railcar and locomotives • Special ceremony and train ride to • Created a multi-agency transit access plan for the Dulles • First meeting: NVTC and PRTC’s recommendations on: planning, nance, WMATA's "ARTS" database • $79M debt issue to purchase 38 railcars, execute the VRE Master Agreement and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Extension Transportation Coordinating Council transit/ridesharing coordination, and 10 locomotives, and a $200M insurance program operating agreements with Amtrak, congestion management Southern Railway, RF&P, and Conrail
1998 1997 1996 1995 1993 • 25th anniversary of Metrobus • Metrorail service begins to • WMATA celebrates 20th anniversary • WMATA begins SmartCard demo called GO CARD 1994 • Metrorail sets new ridership record of 811,000 trips for President • Arlington ART begins service with the Franconia-Spring eld - adds • NVTC awarded APTA’s 1996 Outstanding at 19 Metrorail stations, 5 parking lots and 3 • MetroAccess provides Clinton Inauguration ART 90 in Crystal City 3.3 miles to Blue Line. Metrorail Government Agency award Metrobus lines curb to curb service for • Metrochek allows customers to redeem Metro fares for service • Falls Church Hybrid Bus Pilot: Kick-o now has 75 stations and is a • $700,000 grant to start a regional smart- • New VRE access agreement with CSXT through people with disabilities on 29 transit systems 92.4 mile system • VRE TRIP communications system card-based fare integration project with June ’99 expands service • 30th Anniversary • NVTC receives and allocates $45.6 M in state bonds to support WMATA • Managed $23M to nance the all transit systems • NVTC initiates enlargement of tunnel under • NVTC negotiates with CSXT to operate additional VRE trains to purchase of 13 bi-level railcars for VRE U.S. Capitol for VRE bi-level railcars in the future relieve overcrowding • New VRE station at Lorton • 10 additional VRE railcars added • November 3: Metrobus carries 3 billionth rider
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 • WMATA begins selling fares, passes and • Average week-day ridership for July hits record 616,233 – the highest • Metro opens second multi-level parking facility at Vienna/Fairfax-GMU • Transit technology expo with • Loudoun Co. commuter bus re-brands and merchandise on-line at www.wmata.com daily ridership month in Metro history station. The 2,200 space, six level garage lls up daily by 10 am 14 high-tech exhibitors & over re-launches as LC Transit • WMATA launches SmarTrip – permanent • September 14: SmartBene ts launched – allowing employers to fund • 25th anniversary of Metrorail 200 attendees • Transit Education Day with VTA in Richmond rechargeable plastic farecard for SmarTrip cards directly • 90 day test of SmarTrip cards on Arlington buses begins • Transit Ridership increases 10% • NoVA Transit E-schedules launched for cell Metrorail trips and parking • Executive Order encourages transit ridership by requiring all federal agencies • Kicked o installation of SmarTrip fare boxes on Northern Virginia Bus Systems on free fare days on Code Red phones, personal digital assistants and to provide the full $65 bene t to all employees the Washington area • September 11: Terrorists attack the Pentagon. Transit systems provide safe Ozone Alert days handheld computers • Procurement begins for new Falls Church bus (ELECTREK) - 4 hybrid-electric passage for riders • Start National Transit Database program; buses connecting the East and West Falls Church Metrorail stations – later • NVTC convenes regional transit systems to improve emergency coordination generates $4M in federal funding becomes GEORGE and communication
2008 2007 2006 2005 • Record $42.5M collected in motor fuels • Metro’s 30th anniversary • NVTA’s TransAction 2030 Regional • NVTC supports Blue Ribbon Panel recommendation Transportation Plan update for dedicated Metro funding; seeks a quarter-cent 2004 tax revenues • NVTC’s outreach e orts including legislative district • 22M transit trips in NoVA annually • Demand for E-schedules increases sales tax increase in NVTC’s ve Metro jurisdictions • Transit and ridesharing carry nearly 50% of transit system maps, op-eds, news conferences, • Record 850,636 ridership for the funeral of President Ronald Reagan peak period travel brochures and public rallies play integral role in the 34 percent • Conducts screen-line tra c counts with VDOT and • Richmond Highway Express Bus Service Ft. Belvoir to the Huntington and King Street • Life: Get on Board, NVTC’s award winning passage of HB 3202: New NoVA transportation funding COG in the I-66 corridor • 40th Anniversary; re-designed NVTC logo and outreach materials; sealed a time transit travel training project for seniors • Northern Virginia Transportation Authority launched capsule to be opened in 2044 • SmarTrip fareboxes installed on NoVA transit systems • NVTC applies GIS to improve transit service for seniors
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 • PRIAA: $150 M in federal • “Transit Keeps Northern • Over 1.8 million SmarTrip • Vanpool Promotion • Landmark transportation funding matching funds for Metro Virginia Working” tour cards in circulation partnership with package - HB2313 enacted safety • 3.7M requests for • Manage $500,000 grant PRTC and GWRC • Momentum: The Next Generation • VIP program expands E-schedules to update of NVTA’s of Metro to build Core Capacity vanpooling; generate TransAction 2040 plan • Vanpool Alliance launched – registers more federal transit 209 vanpools in 1st year • Record ridership on President • WMATA & NVTC announce new Obama’s Inauguration Day, electronic payment program, Metro provided about will allow Smart Phones, credit 2014 1,120,000 rail trips, 423,000 cards, and Government issued • NVTC’s 50th Anniversary bus trips and 1,721 MetroAccess ID’s to pay fares • 156M transit trips annually in NoVA trips for a total of 1,544,721 • VRE System Plan adopted to • Silver Line opens at Reston-Wiehle Avenue; 52.47 miles & 25 stations in Virginia trips, the highest ridership day dramatically expand capacity • Metroway, Bus Rapid Transit service, opens between Braddock Road and Crystal City ever in WMATA’s history Metrorail stations • New VRE station groundbreaking: Spotsylvania and Potomac Shores. VRE now operates 30 trains, 111 railcars, 16 stations in Virginia (18 overall) and 90 miles of track • Fairfax opens major multimodal transit facility and realigns 50 routes to connect with Silver Line • NVTC Fellowship program • Metro now has 335 routes and 15,000 bus stops throughout the region