Ferry Update
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 8 January 2010 — Comments Off
The topic of future ferry service in Hercules made its way into yesterday’s agenda for the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) meeting…
Hercules Environmental Review/Conceptual Design — WETA has worked cooperatively with the City of Hercules to prepare the necessary environmental documents to support new ferry service in coordination with a Capitol Corridor commuter train station (and local feeder bus service) in a new Water Transit Oriented Development (WaTOD) being built at the Hercules waterfront.
Impact Sciences has completed the Administrative draft environmental assessment. FTA [Federal Transit Administration] is now requiring the document be a complete EIS and that will add significant time to complete, including the federally mandated review processes for this level of an environmental document. Therefore the analysis will not be complete until 2010. The City of Hercules advised WETA that it has decided to complete its own environmental assessment for the Capitol Corridor station project as this is a “fast track” project for the City that needs to be in construction in 2010. The City will continue to work with WETA as we complete the ferry terminal portion of the EIR/EIS.