U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper recently visited Pueblo, hosting a few roundtables before he rode a next-generation train. Hickenlooper and several local leaders rode a hydrogen-powered train that has been tested at the Transportation Technology Center, located northeast of Pueblo Memorial Airport, on April 4. He said that the project, which is soon going to be sent to California, is part of the “great transition” of addressing climate change. “We’ve got to do it in the most cost-effective way possible. We’ve got to accelerate our ability to address it, but in so doing, we’ve got to make our economy stronger,” Hickenlooper said. “We’ve got to make our communities better and getting this kind of transit in place, it’s exactly how we do this.”

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