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10/18/2022
The Tri-Valley–San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority's board last week approved the final purchase agreement with the city of Tracy, California, for 200 acres to be used for the Valley Link rail project.
The land will serve as the location of a green hydrogen production facility that will support the authority's vision of Valley Link becoming the first passenger-rail system in the state to run on self-produced green hydrogen, authority officials said in a press release.
The hydrogen fuel production facility will also be able to support the goals of other transit and heavy-truck operators, they said.
"Valley Link’s self-produced, green hydrogen will reduce the cost of the overall project operations for the public and offset state and federal transit subsidies," said Veronica Vargas, the authority board's chair. "The project’s vision also supports opportunities to create and sustain new living-wage jobs in both the hydrogen fuel production and related renewable energy industries. This is good for both the economy and the environment."
The 26-mile Valley Link rail project's first phase between the Dublin/Pleasanton Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Alameda County and the Mountain House station in San Joaquin County will connect tens of thousands of Bay Area workers now commuting daily from their homes in communities in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Valley Link is being designed to close a gap in the statewide rail system with a 42-mile, seven-station rail connection between the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station and the North Lathrop Altamont Corridor Express station with all-day BART service during peak periods.