Planners envision transit villages in the Bay Area connected by trains, ferries, buses, and light rail.
"[Hercules,] a 23,000-strong western Contra Costa County community [will] over the next decade morph from a former explosives hub into one of the Bay Area's busiest transportation terminals -- in part due to a new Amtrak station that is already half funded.
This is a starkly different vision for the hamlet given its industrial past, but it's one that planners hope can be replicated around the region....Hercules hopes to cash in on a trifecta of trains, ferries and buses -- with more options to come, such as a light-rail BART link. In the burgeoning era of transit village development, Hercules could emerge as a Bay Area leader."
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