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2005 -- Virginia imposes toll increases on the Dulles Toll Road to help finance the project.
March 2006 -- The state and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority sign an agreement transferring the project to the airports authority.
September 2006 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) rejects a Tysons Corner tunnel.
November 2006 -- The FTA approves the final alignment for the elevated route through Tysons.
March 2007 -- Virginia transportation officials announce an agreement with a private contractor to begin construction of the rail extension, with an elevated segment through Tysons Corner.
June 6, 2007 -- The regional airports authority signs a contract starting the extension and calls for an aboveground segment through Tysons Corner.
June 18, 2007 -- Fairfax supervisors approve the county's $400 million share for the first phase of construction.
Jan. 18, 2008 -- Utility relocation begins along Route 7 in Tysons Corner.
Jan. 24, 2008 -- Federal transit officials tell state and local officials that the project faces "an extraordinarily large set of challenges" that jeopardize federal approval of a full-funding agreement for the project's first phase. A full-funding agreement is the federal government's commitment to help finance a transit project over several years.
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority
1990 -- Local leaders lobby for changes to statewide transportation formula because Northern Virginia has the worst traffic in state.
2001 -- General Assembly creates the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority but gives it only long-range planning authority.
2002 -- Referendum set on whether to increase the 4.5 percent sales tax by a half-cent to raise $5 billion over 20 years. The NVTA would spend the money. The measure fails.
April 2007 -- General Assembly passes law that gives NVTA members, who are mostly locally elected officials, the ability to pass seven tax and fee increases to raise $300 million a year for Northern Virginia roads and transit.
August 2007 -- Prominent anti-tax activists plan lawsuit to challenge constitutionality of NVTA raising taxes.
July 2007 -- NVTA members vote to increase taxes and fees and ask court to rule on constitutionality.
August 2007 -- Lawsuit filed by opponents.
August 2007 -- Arlington County Circuit Court judge upholds constitutionality of NVTA taxes.
February 2008 -- Virginia Supreme Court rules that the NVTA cannot constitutionally raise taxes.
