A Silver Spring Transit Center Meeting hosted by WMATA (Metro authority). will be held April 24th, 7pm at the park and planning building in downtown Silver Spring. Please send your comments by using the information below so that this project will be the grand station we are all hoping for.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF SILVER SPRING TRANSIT CENTER RED LINE MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND

Public Hearing & Docket Number Date and Time Location Hearing No. 173

-Monday Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Docket No. R06-3

April 24, 2006 Commisssion 7:00 PM Montgomery Regional
Office Auditorium 8787 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910

HOW TO REGISTER TO SPEAK AT THE PUBLIC HEARING

All organizations or individuals desiring to be heard with respect to the proposed parking structures will be afforded the opportunity to present their views and make supporting statements and to offer alternative proposals. In order to establish a witness list, individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to be heard at this public hearing are requested to furnish in writing their name, address, telephone number and organization affiliation, if any, to

Office of the Secretary, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 600 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 by noon April 24, 2006.

Alternatively, you may fax this information to Office of the Secretary at (202) 962-1133. Please submit only one speaker’s name per letter. Lists of individual speakers will not be accepted. Others present at the hearing may be heard after those persons on the witness list have been called and heard. Public officials will be heard first and will be allowed ten minutes each to make their presentations. Others who register in advance will be allowed five minutes each and will be heard in order of registration. Those who do not register in advance will be allowed three minutes each. Relinquishing of time by one speaker to another will not be permitted.

The location of this public hearing is accessible to persons with disabilities. Any individual with a disability who requires special assistance, such as a sign language interpreter, to participate in the public hearing should contact Mrs. Leen’da Chambliss at 202-962-2595 or TTD: 202-638-3780 ten days prior to the hearing in order for the Transit Authority to make necessary arrangements.

HOW TO SUBMIT WRITTEN STATEMENTS

Written statements and exhibits may be submitted until close of business on Thursday, May 4, 2006 to

Office of the Secretary, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 600 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001.

Alternatively, you may submit an e-mail to public-hearing-testimony@wmata.com. Please reference the Hearing and Docket Number shown on the front of this document in your submission.