Northern Virginia Transportation Commission

The primary role of the Commission is to collect a tax surcharge to fund Virginia's share of the Washington Metro system and to appoint four representatives to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) board.

Such funds are "dedicated" to support the Metro system meaning that Virginia agreed to be legally obligated to match the federal contributions toward the Metro systems capital expenditures.

[2] On June 24, 2010, McDonnell withdrew his request to appoint two members of the Metro Board as a precondition for making the scheduled "dedicated" payment under the 2008 agreement.

[3] Together with the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, NVTC operates the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail system.

[4] The American Public Transit Association selected NVTC as the outstanding government agency for 1996.

A Northern Virginia Transportation Commission GM "New Look" bus in 1973 at a park-and-ride in Springfield, Virginia before it was converted into a Washington Metro station.