(Washington, DC) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will hold the second M Street SE/SW Transportation Study’s public meeting on Thursday, May 24 to report back on transportation issues identified by community members earlier this year, share traffic forecasts for the next 20 years and enlist community input in possible solutions.

Following a large group presentation updating the community on study work performed thus far, meeting attendees will be invited to talk with staff in break-out groups about the traffic analysis presented, principles that should guide transportation decisions within the study area and possible solutions.

The M Street study is being conducted to identify transportation issues and possible solutions that will help to encourage a livable neighborhood. The focus area lies within a roughly 1.7-square-mile area along M Street SE/SW and the Southwest Waterfront from 12th Street, SE to 14th Street, SW and from the Southwest/Southeast Freeway south to the Anacostia River/Washington Channel.

This meeting is a follow up to the first public meeting held in January 2012, at which the public was given an overview of the study approach and asked to help identify transportation issues and possible solutions.

For more information about the study, please visit www.AnacostiaWaterfront.org/MStreetSESWStudy . To ask questions, comment or be added to the study’s stakeholder contact list, please email ddot.awi@dc.gov or call (202) 741-8528.

DDOT is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, its projects, programs, and services on the basis of race, color, national origin, or gender, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or on the basis of disability as provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

If you need special accommodations or language assistance services (translation or interpretation), please contact Colleen Hawkinson of DDOT at (202) 671-2228 or colleen.hawkinson@dc.gov no later than 48 hours in advance of the meeting. These services will be provided free of charge.