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So I feel like I'm a comment a lot on this It's a crazy a new breed of detective is at the forefront of the battle against a rising tide of serious crime Their work often goes unseen But with extraordinary access We go behind closed doors with Lancashire's top police investigators as they attempt to solve some of the most mystifying and horrifying offenses These specialist detectives use the most modern techniques We need to get Because we want to get him friend to clear examined to deal with today's serious crimes such as date rape You're gonna do a rest on suspicion a rape and when a young man is stabbed It's a tragic thought for us to have really about what's happened to Martin and his final minutes They hunt for a killer on the run So the plan moving forward in it is for us to have a manhunt This is the inside story of how Lancashire's major investigation team Some of the UK's most dangerous criminals to justice The text is inside major crime, okay Oh Excuse me, what's your emergency caller? My friend just been raped Did you just happen? When did it happen? Half an hour ago I'm prioritized. Yeah, I'm gonna get patrols taken over Detective Sergeant Sherilyn Melton visits the home of the victim the crime scene for the first time Her account is that she met the suspect on the dating website plenty fish.com They've been chatting on an app called WhatsApp Yeah, I was on proof Proof, I remember when proof could go rival for rival with Tinder if you wanted some late night You get a little proof and it could happen You know I'm saying anyway my bad They're arranged to meet for the first time and she's given her address and her contact number to the suspect Why would you do that? The scene particularly is the bedroom upstairs, which is the double bedroom It's a two bedroom towels and it's the it's the master bedroom where the offenses taken place They've come in they've had a few drinks in here. He's started to touch her Over-clawing on the set T and then she's gone upstairs to go to the toilet and he's followed upstairs To go to the toilet and then he's dragged into the bedroom where the offense has taken place The crazy camera view W camera man One of the reasons why we're seizing this bedding is because we will be making an arrest And he made an eye that he's actually been been in the bedroom So frenzically we need to link him into this scene So at this stage this is why we're seizing as much frenzy coefficients as we can to put him in the house and put him in particular in this bedroom Y'all could probably take the cup too. We got a saliva on there The victim has been to the hospital where she's been frenzically examined She's described that she's been in LA and vaginally raped. So it's key that we wait. What kind? She's described that she's been in LA and vaginally raped both sites So it's key that we get her to the hospital and examined which we have done And we are currently as we speak obtaining her evidence by way of interview That's so we're able to get a very detailed account of what's happened to her last night We were just talking and then all of a sudden he grabbed me and he just started kissing me But it would be nice about it first He jumped up in front of me and he put his arms under my legs and pulled me forward So I kind of like slouch back onto the sofa and he lent on top of me and start kissing me again I said, you know, you've got the wrong impression of me I said, I don't want anything to happen. Okay. No, no, he's wrong. He's bogus. He should not have done that He should be prosecuted the full length of the law, but at the same time young lady You invited a random man that you met on poof To your house and then told him he had the wrong impression of you. I get it. That ain't what you wanted But don't invite that man to your house then The house is for s ex Invite me to the movies then don't don't tell me it come to the house because all I might think is Netflix in jail in 2023 not me personally I'm talking like that's probably what he'd like, you know But no, he was bogus. No means no and stop is stop But if you have no intention of giving nobody nothing nothing don't invite him to your house That go both ways don't invite that girl to your house if you don't plan on giving up that that woody woodpecker And don't invent that that man in your house if you don't plan on giving up that meow Because that's that that's that's how things get confused It pushed my face into him and he was Strong he was so strong The victims been telling him no but he's continued to To to forcibly Despite pleading for him to stop and crying she's managed to get out of the bedroom and go downstairs She's obviously frightened But she's managed to get him to leave the address to which he has done and basically made some comments to her same time next week I'm slam the door The fact that the suspect is still on the loose means he could return and strike again Wild panic especially when you've got a child here, and you're on your own You feel vulnerable anyway, obviously after what's just happened. You don't I'm sorry.  So that's what's been able to lead us to who he is Sherilyn Melton and her team are now looking to arrest a 26 year old man called Scott Lazingby the victim has been able to give us specific details regarding his description We have identified the potential suspect who's over in Salford. So we're going to go ahead and get that rest now Hopefully easy and hopefully everything I've got to plan and we can arrest him if not Through local intelligence. I am aware. I'm aware of his employment. I know where he works Let's get negative. Let's pull up to his job And read his charges out loud at his job. I've got mobile number I can link to him So we can't find him at the address today. Then there's there's a backup plan Where's the entrance into it doesn't make it easy. We'll be in an apartment. Does it it's gonna be the 8th floor Hi, this is a message for Scott. My name is Sherilyn Melton. I'm one of the sergeants over in the police station at Blackburn I'm actually at your flat Scott. So I need to speak to you If you can either open the door or if you can come back to the flat So I'm gonna ring you back again in a couple of minutes and if you can pick the phone up, please and then we can have a chat Thanks very much Scott is definitely on the road Right, I'll try him again now. I've left a message to say that obviously it's not gonna go away Police will continue to come to his address until he's arrested Pressure's on him now really he's probably gonna want to come back and get it so to give him a little bit of time And I'll try him again in a couple of minutes. If he doesn't answer his phone then we are potentially gonna have to get an arrest package putting over night Like a warrant Sherilyn calls her office to check if Lazenby said anything to the victim that will help the police to trace him I just need to ask because we've obviously come to his address and he's not in is there anything she knows about him family members Where he might have said he was going today Football practice at nine All he said to her was that he'd got for football training this morning But he she's saying he's been quite vague around what personal details he's ever given to her plays into cars close to his chest Lazenby is still not returning Sherilyn's calls so the team travel 40 minutes north to Paddyham We've now received information that we think he possibly is playing football in a nearby town in Paddyham They come into the football game That's even more negative than work Which also would show connection to what the victim has said Because it's quite a large area And it's in it's a wooded area We're gonna get a dog patrol to be on standby in case he is there any runs away And we're going to see if he's there This is Imagine Gonna go play football with you with your friends in this cabin Ultimately what we've got to do is I've got to find him out where it ended days. It's a rapist at large into it Although he's not at the football ground Sherilyn does get some positive news The suspect Scott Lazenby has returned her call. I do need to speak to you urgently at the police station What's gonna happen until I do come face-to-face with you? There's patrols gonna be looking for you all night And I don't want to get your family in stock involved and I don't want to get you work involved And I don't want to get your friends involved. So it's your interest Just Well, where are you where are you? Yeah In where In stock You can't drive Right, cuz what what could happen is I could end up saying I tell myself I had a drink I can't drive now. You want to follow the rules Then the patrol around to your parents addresses Which I don't particularly want to do and we would have to bring you from your parents address to To to me Yeah If you're not in stock and you're lying to me I will check this out I will know all right. I'm gonna know if you're in stock or not. So if you're telling me lies now, it's not a good start. I Think he's panicking a little bit. He's saying he doesn't know why the police need to speak to him He's told me that it's not available tonight because he's had a drink in his in stock And but he has said he'll come in for nine o'clock in the morning to Green Bank play session and common speech was fingers crossed If we don't catch him before now, we'll get him it down in the morning Lancashire Detective sergeant Cheryl and her team are Investigating an allegation that a young mother was raped in her own home by a man. She met on a dating website It used his right hand and he'd actually started to put it behind my head It was pulling on my hair and he kind of locked my neck my head backwards. My neck will locked It managed to take my clothes off And in just a second I just felt this Horrible pain just goes straight through my body and my head kind of like went up to the wall He'd push me up that far and I just screamed and screamed and every time I shouted no It just got louder and louder and louder The suspect Scott Lazenby is expected to hand himself in to be questioned You I'm expecting a Scott London Bay to arrive at nine o'clock Although he doesn't know why he's been asked to come in you know, why Lazenby has brought a lawyer.  All right, this officer's going to arrest you Scott you're under arrest on suspicion of rape You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defense if you do not mention one question something which relates to lying in court I'm not gonna ask you any questions now. Okay, obviously you got your solicitor here. You look clearly look a little bit shocked About the allegation. Yeah, I need to hear his side Look, it's today.  I've never met you before Okay We're gonna walk through and give you the benefit of the doubt. We're gonna walk through. I'm not gonna put handcuffs on you All right. Okay. I want to just finish your apple I'm even hungry no more after that type of allegation towards He shouldn't even be hungry sergeant this gentleman's been arrested in an allegation of rape The circumstances being on the 7th of November in the evening This gentleman is said to have attended an address whereby the complainant states this gentleman has Analy and vaginally raped He is talking about the charges that I brought against him. He said wait both That's tough. I'm ringing just to update. Yes. I said I would yesterday. I need to hear this side Okay, so he's currently at with the police station with us So what will happen now is we'll be interviewing him to get his account just based off her side alone He bogus, you know, I'm saying but that's just his side though her side because I have friends that have been in this situation To African-American friends that have been in this situation It matters in this story Where they were accused of the our word and later the both both times later both women Brought it back and said that wasn't the case. They were just You know, I'm saying one of them their father walked in and That's the that's what she claimed was happening That's what she yelled because she didn't want to embarrass her father And now she was with a black girl. The other one was She had a boyfriend And he found out or something and she was just trying to cover her tracks both of them Took it all the way to court. I'm talking there was a trial Or finally He's going to say and then we'll we obviously continue with our investigation So I'll let you know it's going to be late a lot later on today But I will let you know what's going to happen whether there's a few options. He may be charged. He may go out on bail Detectives will questions got laser be under caution The interview will play a key part in determining whether or not he will be charged with rape black What's funny night? 25 miles away in blackpool police respond to an urgent call A man has collapsed outside a flat near the town center I'm just 100% genuinely not surprised that this is happening in blackpool We've done so many documentaries. I've heard so much Observed safe safe principles in case the weapons evolved The victims rushed to hospital in critical condition suffering with multiple stab wounds Tragically he did not survive So we are messing in here and everything the next morning the police launch a major murder investigation led by detective superintendent Andy Murphy Three stab wounds to the left thigh stroke hip so the front of his body One stab room to the rear left shoulder The suggestion at the moment is that the wound to the thigh has gone through an artery and that Yeah, let us do it for the kill This is a really horrific Murder of a a man who we believe is about 30 years of age who's called Marcin Paolo Who the victim March in Pavlov was from Poland Detectives question the people who were in the flat with him that night to find out who he was and what happened The only one who has spoken. Yeah, basically Explains how our deceased has come up from Yorkshire. Yeah to spend Christmas with these people here And he's arrived on the train Okay And they all know each other because they live in a group in a Polish village together But otherwise there's no connect the connection to Blackpool is that from Marcin here other than these pals that he's got Okay, and we're in the process of contacting family and that's where we're up to currently We've arrested people what the difficulties will be will be to identify who's caused the injuries to Marcin and why Although police believe they have arrested everyone who was in the flat The investigation is far from straightforward. All our witnesses are Polish males All of which speak very little English. We know that most of them were drinking at the night in question So the value of their evidence first of all is impaired through that intoxication And in addition to that the fact that there's a language barrier becomes particularly demanding, right? Despite these difficulties the team have discovered there was an argument between Marcin and a mysterious sixth man As a result of interviewing the initial individuals who were arrested We now think that Marcin our victim Left the flat as a result of a dispute And this dispute was amongst a number of individuals within the flat But primarily involved a male who we believe is called Robert. Now what we do know is that Undoubtedly think the sixth man address and we want to identify five, aren't we? Okay, I suppose the conclusion I'm going to is we've got another six person. Yeah, who's unidentified Bro, are you kidding me? This cough is ridiculous, but I've never had a cough in my life last this long Let me go get some medicine The people that were in the flat on the night that Marcin Pavlov died But who no longer live there or are connected to the property are too afraid of the sixth man to identify him However, police believe he is called Robert and is very dangerous From what we've been told this is a completely disproportionate Use of violence towards this person. This guy is pretty obviously a real violent person So you can see it's a dead fast-moving investigation What I wanted to use at this meeting now is An opportunity to show you the cctv so that you've all got a clear understanding of what we're talking about Okay, can I can I ask you please to talk us through the cctv? Is that possible? But we see how we're deceased and obviously it stumbles out of the flat There's a police feat right Good so there's nobody come out that we haven't identified other than a guy who comes out and turns right That one person will be Robbeck. Yeah Sorry With only the grainy image of Robbeck's legs to go on Andy is going to the crime scene to look for evidence and get a better understanding of how Marcin died There's been a dispute and as a result of that Marcin and his mate have been thrown out of this house Or asked to leave they walk out then Marcin we believe has gone back And squirted a fire extinguisher in the face of one of the occupants And then there's been a bit of a a fight on the stairs And Marcin's gone down the stairs probably fallen to the floor we think and then at that point we think that Robbeck Has gone up to him and stabbed him and caused the multiple stab wounds two of which has killed him From the interviews that we've had are saying that Marcin has been pushed down there And then Robbeck he's actually gone down some way if that is the case To go and stab him Police have found a knife and removed it for forensic examination Matt so where was the knife found? It was found just here on the armchair here So in terms of significant forensic evidence in here the knife was obviously the main thing and then apart from that all the Vehicles that work on the coffee table, which we've swapped and fingerprinted If the forensic team can recover DNA and fingerprints They may be able to identify the killer Okay, we know from the cctv camera that Marcin's literally come straight out of that address Hopped into the middle world and collapsed in the middle of the road and then he's been dragged Here prior to going to hospital It's it's a tragic, uh, thought for us to have really about what's happened to Marcin in his final minutes of life A little argument escalated in the hall of death With no further evidence to go on Andi and Dean are no closer to finding the elusive and very dangerous robbeck The fact that he's come over from Poland and he's used to traveling cross borders That there might be a real risk that he's gone and he couldn't really do one could our man Wouldn't be surprised if he's not there no more Could have got up out of there easily Blackburn Lancashire D.S. Sherilyn Is in the date rape allegation before questioning the suspect Detectives must be sure of the victim's account. I just kept saying scott. Just stop it. Just stop. I said just no And he wouldn't let go of me and did it for a good few minutes and then all of a sudden I don't know where I got it from. I just screamed really loudly. I just screamed. I just shouted I don't even know what I said. I don't know if it would get off me or what. I just screamed really loudly So he jumped back And he just kept saying stop crying. Just hug me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Just hug me I'll make it better to you. But whilst he was doing it He weren't laying on top of me and his head was here and whispering it, but he was touching himself But he was talking to me and saying come on. Let's try it again. Let's try again I won't hurt you this time. Come on. Come on. Don't spoil it I just said get out of my house. I said you just need to go Now detective constable if the alley will question the suspects I I believe her story, but he's just He was just overly shocked But you know I guess he didn't think nobody was gonna tell It's got lasenby. Let's hear it Scott. Consistencies in his version of events If we can get quite a good detailed account from him If we do that now then at some stage let's run down the line Deviating him deviating from that account will show That that he's got the propensity to have maybe maybe Have lied to us on his first account I've driven over there. I've got there around 8 p.m. We stayed downstairs for about an hour We were kissing joking laughing one thing leads to another and she could just let's take this upstairs So so she led me upstairs She got into bed I got into bed We started kissing cuddling Taking clothes off Yeah, we're having sex and then we changed position and we go to have anal sex and I I I was too fast and she didn't like it. So she got upset. She says stop. So I stopped And we stopped we took we talked at this point. She's quite upset And I'm saying you know just calm down. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so forceful in that in that sense And you know give me a cuddle. I'm sorry We're for Nessie that is also very believable now Because oh man, man, we gotta go to court. We gotta go to court because I don't know now But that's a believable story as well Finally But we just got to see when we asked later down the road It's he gonna be consistent with a lot of serious sexual cases Tends to be just two people involved And it's done in a private location. It's Done away from anybody else. It's really difficult because there only is the two people there And to my least on those two people that know You know what the truth is Lazenby tells the police he lives with a woman he met through the same dating website He met the victim. So you was outside cheating Okay The plat begins I do live with a friend throughout the week A friend I met her of plenty of fish. She was probably the first person I didn't meet off there Many, you know, many years ago and um, I now live with her and her children It's what's the living arrangement, okay? We were friends and we have had sexual Relationships before now we are just friends Friends with benefits The suspect has got his vehicle at the police station. So we're going to do a search on that A search of Lazenby's car reveals a receipt that appears to contradict his account of his whereabouts McDonald's There's been the Paddy Mary this morning Um, not in Stoke as he said last night You look like you've got some goodies He's definitely wasn't in Stoke last night Confirm that That's irrelevant Stoke last night Lomberton butler, he buys them out, Tesco, Paddy, oh, Paddyum So if he's come from Stoke, why would he be in Paddyum? Look at his inconsistencies. If he's telling us where he's been, we need to check that We need to check alibis. We need to check the address where he's saying he's been living in in the local area We need to check that's correct Now the team know that Lazenby lied to them Detective Constable Ifty Alley wants to challenge him further Yeah, I'm trying to see if he's all together a liar And when the sergeant spoke to you, she asked you where you were You clearly said I'm in Stoke First she said yeah, I'm at my parents and then he said no, no, I'm not at my parents. I'm in Stoke I'm not at my parents So, you know, there's a couple of lies there straight away There is and it's not the fact that I lied Intentionally or anything like that. It's just the fact that I was really scared, you know And I didn't understand what you were calling me for. I didn't realize it was so serious Lied about something that is quite key So that clearly shows us Or gives us the view that you've got the propensity to lie We speak to him about and we uh, we ask him, you know What's your living arrangements? Yeah, yeah, we are just friends and and so on and We question him a little bit more on that and we ask him about his sexual relationship with And he bits as well. I don't think that's got anything to do with it. That's got nothing to do with this case Well, we're asking you because it's important if you're having sex with And your partner. Oh, no, she's not my partner. She's just we're just friends She's gonna be asked about your relationship Is your love is his lawyer Is his lawyer no longer present or what what it is Just don't just don't buy this is you know, this is rather than You're shaking your head from side to side. This is clearly distressing me We just like to know the truth I've not lied to you about this. You are still in a sexual relationship with Yeah, friends of the benefits is clear as day. I'm not it's a simple question. Yeah, but I yeah, but I I'm not lying about what happened on that night Okay, are you still in a sexual relationship with Yes, so why did you lie to us? Well, I did I just didn't feel it was relevant What's your relationship? It's kind of that we have quite an open relationship So we lied on the first interview Panic mode starts to set in a little bit more. Well, no, no, we are in open relationship But she's where is this lawyer? I can open relationship The team are suspicious of Lazenby's account But frustratingly for them, they don't at this stage have enough evidence to charge He'll be placed on police bail but forbidden to contact the victim in any way Those conditions are there to protect the victim in this case So far what I've had from him has been several lies So you question mark a lot of what he's saying. Is it the truth or not? So that's that's exactly what we need to find out who here we get the truth Excuse me, man Releasing scott lazenby is a risk if he is a rapist he could attack again In blackpool Detectives investigating the death of marchin pavlov want to trace a polish man called robbeck But they've now learned that their suspect also uses the name Sebastian The key line for us is to get hold of Sebastian who was originally referred to as robbeck And you know what makes me even more concerned is the fact that the suspects that we've currently got in custody Are all really worried about telling us About this individual so that it demonstrates some real fear within that group two witnesses say that he's responsible for the murder of marching This guy's obviously dead Deadly violent So the plan moving forward net is for us to have a manhunt with regard to Rob whatever you call him Sebastian. Okay, Nick if you can get him I'll do me best. Okay. Thanks everyone The team visit a woman they believe might be the girlfriend of their suspect No surprise they're going on a man. This man is committed to him. They got to go hunt them like this They got to catch that man We need some more details about some real nuances to be given as any book she's given us enough details There's no suggestion that the woman has done anything wrong But detectives keep her under surveillance and track the calls on her mobile phone To compound the team's frustration The only image of the suspect that they have is of his feet leaving the crime scene No image at all But the detectives have been piecing together a cctv trail to establish his movements after the stabbing One of the witnesses on an interview He basically puts himself in company with the offender post post incident And going to a brothel on Cuckson street. So we're getting that brothel identified It's then allowed us or given us another cctv opportunity So we're just linking to the cctv image here and what the police inquiry says This individual here is that male there It's all you're seeing And there's another new lead An associate of Sebastian has told the police that he is a member of a local gym I don't know He said that he hasn't seen him for two months Up into him either at the gym or just out on the street and they'd have a beer with him We now know from a witness that he attended a local gym We've been inquiries at that gym and we've recovered a membership card So we're quite satisfied now that the individual called Robak has been going by the name of Vojcek Sabic The police have also recovered the application form for the gym membership Fingerprints from that application form match fingerprints within the scene Particularly on beer cans that we think the male known as Robak was handling So now there's a clear link between Robak being the same person or at least a person who uses the details of Vojcek Sabic Police now have a third alias for Marchins killer It's becoming clear that they're dealing with a criminal who is used to deliberately covering his tracks Yeah, he's a veteran at this In addition to this undercover officers have had a tip-off about a person who may have assisted the killer in escaping We're just going now to uh an address up to uh affect the arrest of a gentleman Who we believe has assisted The offender Oh he go Up Officers are in luck they quickly apprehend the man who may have helped their suspect to leave Blackpool He's brought into police custody Do you understand why you're here? The allegation is that someone that we believe has been involved in a murder Okay, you've driven them to the airport to enable them to get out the country the allegation is that you've done that What we call assisted an offender in their ongoing But he could be plausible deniability. I know what he did. He called me. He said he needed to ride to the airport. I took him to the airport That's what friends do plausible deniability Wiring as long as he ain't tell them that significantly We've had an individual now who we think the evening after the offense He took our main suspects abyss to the airport So that does now present us with the new hypothesis that our suspect may have traveled out of the country Fled the country and that does obviously make things a bit more difficult in terms of securing his arrest But it now appears that the man arrested didn't help the suspect 13 minutes He asked me to do him a favor and take him to the airport He received a text message to say his plane had already gone He gives me a postcode and said can I get him to this place? It was just like a street with shops and we stopped I don't know what the name of the place was but that's the last time I saw him So marching Pavlov's killer could still be here in the uk There's no trace of him on the details that we've been given with the spelling and the date of earth What is interesting the the airport labs know the area very well and they said from tctv has actually gone Past the airport and into leicestershire area Now that fits Further checks on the mobile phone of the suspect's girlfriend appear to show calls to a number in leicestershire Convinced he has got a flight then at the risk of putting all her eggs in one basket But it's like she's suddenly in contact with someone down there. So i'm I'm quite enthusiastic about that really This piece of information could be key to finding marchin's killer It's going to be a manhunt and there's a whole host of Tactic strategies that are now going to be employed to get this individual the urgency for me Is around the harm that that individual has the potential to cause to other people True he is that but he really know how to maneuver to it look like This might not be his first time Sheridan is investigating the rape of a young mother She had to release the suspect scott lasin beyond bail She's concerned that if guilty he could reoffend But news from colleagues in greater manchester police could be the breakthrough her team needs He committed a very very similar offense on the 3rd of november is committed something very very similar to another Age about the same who also has a young child So it looks like he's preying on sort of these vulnerable females Again through plenty of fish.  She's still holding the baby at the time Which is even more worrying. She's told him to get out. She's walked to the front door Um Open the door and turn around to get out again.  Um, he said there was no sexual contact whatsoever But interestingly if he was meant to be meeting this female to build a relationship He was only there for a matter of minutes before she's told him to get out This person has committed almost um an identical offense. Um, he's always exactly the same He's met online He's gone around to the female's house both females in this instance have children These two women don't know each other So what are the chances in a five day period two women who don't know each other being exploited in their own home? Okay, john. So in relation to suspect he's due back on police bail on the 8th of february So from my understanding we were pretty much filed already now to go to see the crown prosecution There's two offenses here committed in within five days of each other Of somebody that's already said on interview. He's already met at least 30 to 40 women online So it is concerning. I do want to expedite I do want to get this guy back on bail on the 8th of february And i'm hoping that i'm going to be in a position on the 8th of february Where we're going to be charging and getting the right result for the victim in this case In blackpool detectives have been desperately trying to track the elusive and dangerous killer of marchin pavelov Who was brutally stabbed to death The team understands that their suspect sobbish goes by a number of different fake names They have been tracking calls on his girlfriend's phone and now have a list of addresses they need to check in lestershire And we've identified a redress in the south centre and we believe it may be connected to the sinceton blackpool Hello, i have to worry about you. What if we come in and have a quick chat? They're having a break The woman at the house owns the mobile phone that sobbishes girlfriend has been contacting Daniel The fact that she knows the suspect as daniel becomes a key clue for the police The suspect has been using a variety of aliases, but interpol have finally confirmed his true identity Daniel sobbish and he is well known to them There he is The information we've had via interpol from the polis authorities is confirmation now of the actual identity of our suspect And we've done that by providing them with the fingerprints from the scene the fingerprints from the application form on the gym Six convictions Feth using violence or weapons, which is obviously what we call robber The reason why he's on record in polis because he has committed previous offenses over there I believe some violent offenses when according to this he was quite a prolific burglar He's got quite a few for burglary He's the petty thief The team hope they can find their suspect by continuing to monitor the phone belonging to his girlfriend This is her incoming data. So these are all the numbers and texts that have room given to her phone Once we identified a mobile phone that he's utilizing We do a lot of inquiries around the telephony to try and locate where that phone might be operating from 15 undercover officers are now assigned to various addresses in Leicestershire to try and close the net on sobbish Yeah, two more people have just entered that premises stocky mail. We have bold head and an older male Uh, Steve just a quick one a heads up We might have an address for our suspect in Loughborough that we um, we might be able to connect him to Girlfriend is in now in communication with a mobile phone which subscribes to an address in Loughborough I don't want to just go knock on the door and miss him I'd rather give ourselves an opportunity to see if there's some comments on goings and either You know, I confirm if he's knocking about then The Loughborough connection is a dead end there's no sign of sobbish there But there's a new lead to a property in Leicester There was people in there After a four-week search for Marchins Involving a series of raids on numerous addresses Officers believe they have finally got them out Okay, so why is this gentleman here? He's been transferred from Leicester like a sergeant. Um, he's been arrested. I'm going to file cell for suspicion over Okay, okay. Do you speak English? Yeah I've come down to the custody office to conduct interviews with the suspect We're going to put our challenges to him And once we've gone that we'll make a decision whether we got the cps or whether we need to come back and do further interviews Could you know the massing power on the 23rd of December? When questioned Daniel sobbish admits he was at the flat but denies involvement with the stabbing Witnesses are all saying there was a heated argument between you and the man who's murdered. Is that why you killed this man? And he's just kept shitting about everybody and he's not known that they turned on him And they've breached the code so he's a little bit pissed off to say the least Despite sobbish's denials detectives are confident about the case against him A witness has made a statement saying that sobbish spoke to him after the stabbing So I need to want to give his e-mails. He says that he sits next to him. Um, and he says I've killed the man. Well, I think I've killed the man Yeah, yeah out of there, man.  You're getting a straight M In order to charge sobbish the police must get authorization from the crown prosecution service. Okay, that was Within hours the available evidence has been reviewed and their decision made what they do. Okay. Thanks, Julie. They got it.  I've authorized the charge of murder. Good word, mate. Brilliant. Right. I'll put the charges in there. All right, can you stay with trying to get the family notified? Okay Get the charges put I can pause recording since when can I do that? It's a stop recording or pause recording So now when I get up, I can just press pause when I'm recording didn't come back and that's So it looked like I'm Which I am the best editor on the platform. That's tough We're absolutely overjoyed to have located this individual the real value when I think we sit back as police officers and think Okay, why why why why do we feel good about this? It's because we feel that we've delivered He looked like a cop. He couldn't have been no other job except a cop or like a The mayor or something his head is shaped like a cop or a mayor Something mayor the victim Is that he actually to receive some justice? Right Daniel. Okay. The charge Is a charge of murder and that is on the 23rd of december 2015 at blackpool murdered marcin pavlov Which is country to common law I kind of looked at him and We hadn't kind of like built up on it on a pedestal, you know a bit of a bodybuilder type and a real kind of like Danger and threats of public and yeah, that that that's definitely was the case but in custody Looked like it was a defeated man It was almost as if you know, it was just kind of like game over for him. It's always game over when you get caught for him It's good. You're done Daniel sob ish was convicted of the manslaughter of marcin pavlov. They gave a manslaughter And given a prison sentence of 13 years They gave a manslaughter. They did get on that. Okay Scott Lazenby has been brought into the police station to be charged with sexual assault And they took his down from an R to a SA My self and my team have done an extensive thorough investigation Um, I suppose on the day it's going to come down to those 12 jury members But I'm confident in my ability my team's ability that we've put forward a strong case After a four-day trial for Lazenby was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of two women Okay, he was jailed for seven years, but he's not gonna have an easy time in jail either He's gonna have the roughest time in there and prohibited from using dating websites for 13 years As soon as she said to me he's been found guilty. I just I I could breathe I just felt I could breathe and I just felt so relieved that it was done. It were all over All right, that's tough man till I leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post. I'm glad we watched that one. It was fairly entertaining, I guess it's for lack of a better word. We'll go


This team in Chicago just wrapped up Arsenal Everton disappointing result One goal was a moment of excellence. The other was Clearly an inexcusably offside Super disappointed today with the results. Just there's no finishing there team look good for first half beginning the second half and Once they got in behind it just kind of felt part Sounds familiar now Part of the frustration from today is a lot of the team look good I think I would have subbed off Dominic Calibur Lewin after the first goal But even he was making decent runs.  I think that's what I would have done I think I would have come out with Richard listen up front Bernard on the left will caught on the right and Sigerton in the middle That's not what Silva went with and it looked fine for 60 minutes, but There's just no finishing up front for us and I don't know how without A new signing you fix that. I don't know if the players have it in them to become goal scorers On a consistent level at this level But I mean Again, it was a very frustrating game didn't deserve to be down to 65 minutes in Just frustrating I need to get the offensive sordid. Hopefully with a little consistency up front. We can get that sorted out Get some goals going but right now. I mean Yeah, I'm already starting to look towards the winter window and I want to do that. So hopefully we can get this sorted Get some of those guys who are still You know on the edge of the team due to injury or we're due to fitness. We can get them going Tough game out there today, but hopefully hopefully we move forward positively next week


I'll give you the sort of basic overview. I'm going to be taking you on a tour of what's been going on with intercity passenger rail developments both close to home here in California. Before that, some efforts and experiments in the U.S. and the rest of the world and how these all sort of come to a head, I think, in the medium term. California is definitely the place to be if you want to see what the new formula or new model railroad, as I've called it, for North American passenger service might look like. Whether you like it or not, and I think most of you like it, but maybe some don't, California is the innovator, the laboratory, and you're experimenting with trying to make passenger trains have a brighter future. So let's see where we've been. The U.S. has had a record, a pretty good track record, the U.S. has had a pretty good record of adopting transportation technologies that have been invented elsewhere, two major technologies, well, three really. The motorized steam engine, which you see here, the automobile and the jet aircraft were all invented outside of the United States, but yet the U.S. is known for making quick use of these. So here you see recreations of the first modern, recognizably modern rail operation, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway is on the left there, again a recreation of that, and a recreation within one year of that going into service. The Baltimore and Ohio was operating essentially the same technology, essentially the same type of service on the east coast of this continent. So the first sort of time period for adopting foreign technology to our transportation system in a big way was exactly one year, which is pretty good when you think about it, especially in the 19th century, early 19th century, how long it took to get things across the Atlantic. And I think Americans have been eager and quick to embrace new technology and new opportunities in mobility, because in this country even more than most, the association between physical mobility and social mobility has been widely accepted and embraced. The idea that tomorrow will be better for more people if they have more options and more choices on how to get around was borne out for a couple of centuries in this country. And of course, this part of the west coast was built and expanded over those years because of new transportation options, whether it was rail or ships getting the first settlers here. As you can see from this book illustration from the 1940s, when people thought about the future, they thought about more and different modes of mobility being added to the mix, whether it was streamlined rail, elevated expressways, helicopters, or even space travel. I'm going to need the laser pointer, so I might as well check if it's working. Let's see if that does it. I'll get it eventually. Anyway, so the automobile, as we know it, was invented in Germany and the jet aircraft also in a different Germany, one that wasn't particularly friendly to the U.S. at the time. But the U.S. was quite quick to embrace and adapt these technologies, even more than the steam locomotive, where the U.S. has excelled in taking transportation technology to the next level has been turning existing inventions that were designed for very specialized purposes, like fighter aircraft or a horseless carriage for rich people, and turning those into mass transportation, again, based on that principle that more physical mobility will help social mobility and create opportunities for people throughout the country. Henry Ford said lots of things which I probably wouldn't agree with, but I certainly agree with this quote that he put forward when people asked him about his role in innovating the automobile mass production system. They're really what he excelled at and what I think the American approach to transportation innovation has been to assemble the discoveries of others and make progress with them when the factors are ready to put those into place. And whether it's low-cost air travel or using automobiles as a form of mass transportation in this country, the U.S. has led the world and even in aerospace travel as well. So when we have this curve of adoption, we see that the U.S. has been an early adopter, whether it was the 19th century trains, automobiles, aerospace, but what I would call modern passenger rail, the late 20th century and 21st century reincarnation of passenger rail, whether we like it or not, are laggard in that area. That's kind of an outlier that I think needs some attention. We need to know why it is that this tendency that Americans have had for generations before to sort of adopt and adapt transportation technology to make it better tomorrow just didn't happen when it came to figuring out how to build better trains. So at first it looked possible that this pattern would continue. This is the inauguration of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the famous Japanese bullet train, which will be coming up to its 50th anniversary in October. I'm pretty sure it'll make the news at least backpages of the newspaper. In Japan it'll probably be a big deal. It was 1964. I believe they had an Olympics in Japan, and this was inaugurated. And it caught people's attention in this country and others around the world. And within one year, again we have that one year time lag, President Johnson, the last president before the current one to really have a sort of a passion or at least a high priority for figuring out better modern passenger trains at a national level signed the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965. That appropriated $60 million, which I didn't do the math but is a lot more today in today's dollars, for demonstration for technology R&D and for demonstration projects to show what would be possible with bringing high speed passenger trains and maybe reversing some of the challenges that the rail industry was having in the mid 1960s, particularly around passenger but even freight. Well, it didn't turn out to be a high speed route to implementing that vision and program of the High Speed Ground Transportation Act. The only record really that the U.S. holds when it comes to high speed is the longest elapsed time between proposing bringing high speed rails to passenger service and actually deploying it. We've passed nine presidents and 24 sessions of Congress, but we can learn from that long slow march forward or I think we should try to anyway. We need to think carefully about what happened during those 50 years, both here and abroad. So let's begin by looking at what happened here. We did quickly build a train that could go very fast and this looks a bit like a cartoon type contraption. You'd see Wiley Coyote piloting, but it's still this piece of rail equipment actually currently is still the speed record holder in North America. It was set on July 23, 1966 in Bryan, Ohio of all places, a state that sent back their public stimulus money for higher speed passenger rail a few years back. I doubt the people who made those decisions even had a clue that their state is the place currently that has the speed record for this. This was a prototype. It was just made to test the idea that you actually could get a train going this fast on this continent, sort of like the Shinkansen. They took a surplus jet engine from a B-47, welded it to the top of a self-propelled RDC car and the people who piloted or drove that took a lot of risk to do that test because half of that car was filled with jet fuel and to make that engine work and if something would have gone wrong, no one would have walked away from that situation. So it was a bit of a risk and it did show that if you spiked down every switch, closed every grade crossing for 100 miles and put a jet engine on the train, you could get it going quite quickly. But this was enough to catch the attention of the aerospace industry and there was something that came out of this, the turbo train, which was built by United Aircraft, which was Sikorsky and I think it's now part of Lockheed Martin. They've sort of merged and expanded over the years but the aerospace industry found a more appropriate way to put a jet turbine inside the locomotive, not strapped to the roof and this train, the turbo train, actually was operational between New York and Boston between 1968 and 1976. It reached test speeds of 170 miles an hour on the northeast rail tracks and it's schedule between New York and Boston during those years when it made the schedule, which wasn't always, but when it was there it was the same speed schedule as the current fastest train in North America, the Amtrak Accela. So this did show that you could get the aerospace industry involved in building and designing a train that could go quickly using sort of modern technology in production. The other part of this demonstration program was a partnership for an electric high-speed train, which would be more similar to the Shinkansen and is the sort of grandparent maybe of the Accela of today or one of the descendants. This was the Metroliner and this was a partnership between the four big companies whose logos are at the bottom, two of which are still around today, the ones that didn't specialize only in rail, GE and Westinghouse and a rail company, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Bud Company, which was the builder of a lot of classic passenger train equipment in the late mid 20th century. They got together and showed that you could build an electric train that could go around 120 miles, 125 miles an hour on good days in regular service and this was also put into service on the part of the northeast corridor of New York to Washington that had electric traction in place and it offered a three hour trip from New York to Washington, which was a commercial success story. The Metroliner and its Progeny, the Accela today are the one part of the passenger rail system in North America that is consistently able to cover its costs. It showed that you could do that and back in the day there was a poster there that Amtrak could actually boast that it ran one of the fastest passenger trains in the world. This would have been about 1972 or 73 and we can't say that anymore but that was sort of the high point of this demonstration program, the Accela and the Metroliner. Meanwhile, other places that didn't get in on this first round of development and saw challenges which we'll get to in a minute in the rail industry wound up taking different approaches. Once Amtrak was put in place, California was probably the biggest proponent or active state in trying a more simplified approach, not trying to beat the Japanese speed records but to develop simpler versions of intercity passenger rail and Amtrak, California was a work in progress that has taken that path further than any other part of the US has. So California has invested more and more in its network which is illustrated here. You can see Santa Cruz, I can't seem to get the laser pointer going. Maybe this? No? Yeah. We're here right now and the Amtrak services go down the Central Valley as well as the coast but where Amtrak, California really developed some innovation was in intermodal connections which you have here as well. The idea that you could connect up and extend trains that ran in these corridors to communities like Santa Cruz by dedicated bus connections that met the trains through tickets guaranteed meeting was an innovation and showed that it wasn't all or nothing. You didn't have to have train versus road. You could get things working together. So that built the market for more in California and some of those buses go to other more tourist type train operations in Northern California. You have the skunk train up in Willets in Napa Valley. Couldn't get a picture of the Napa wine train with the Amtrak bus next to it but you can connect those up. I guess people could take the number 17 flyer bus down the highway here to ride some of your special train trips as well. So California developed really the second largest market for Amtrak outside of the Northeast through these steps, small steps but a lot of them over time and Amtrak had the Northeast legacy of that sort of infrastructure and technology demonstration program but they didn't quite reach the critical mass yet of what was going on in other parts of the world. When you think about what was missing from the ingredient we showed that we could build fast trains, very fast trains. We showed that we could build good connected service networks to serve corridors and markets between 100 and 250, 300 miles but the tracks were the limiting factor I think that to take America's passenger trains places that they've gone in other parts of the world now in Asia and in Europe the tracks have to be decongested in places where they're too crowded or upgraded as you might think of doing here where you've got a long legacy of sort of slow speed limited freight operations. When it's come time whether it's been the turbo train, the metro liner or the Ocella those high speed trains have never been able to reach their design potential because of the tracks that they operate over and when you get out into the longer haul systems, excuse me, the longer haul parts of the Amtrak system and even some of the corridors here there's a real congestion problem where there just isn't the capacity in a growing economy to move all the freight that those Class 1 railroads want to keep going across the continent and fit the passenger trains in so they usually wind up getting delayed and taking the side track. So the trick I think for us to think carefully about American experience and challenges is how to figure out how to build the infrastructure or rebuild the infrastructure in some places that would be needed whether it's for very high speed trains or even more conventional train service. And we have to recognize that the U.S. doesn't have a lot of experience at a public sector level in building or rebuilding rail infrastructure. The last time the U.S. national government got into building rail infrastructure it did it sort of as a silent partner. This is a map of the areas of the U.S. where land grants were given out to the private railroads, the Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. And you can see large sections of California. That's not all the land in those sections that was given away but those are the zones where large amounts of land were transferred and that was a one-time gift if you will although the railroads would say that they earned it by developing the infrastructure and by offering special rates for mail and military transportation and public use of the tracks. That gets to be quite contentious but the point I guess is that it's been over a century since that model was used and it was a one-shot wonder. You can only give the land away once, pretty much. Once you've given it, that's it. And the railroads have a bit of a legacy baggage shall we say from that period. That's a cartoon from the gilded age of the the robber barons. When railroads had once you got away from navigable water in the United States along those corridors they had a monopoly and railroads you know got a bit high and mighty in that monopoly and lots of farmers and others felt that they were being taken advantage of and railroads also in this state and others had a bit of a corrupting influence on politics to keep those privileges going. Eventually like any sort of overreaching of those sorts of things there was a reaction and some might say an overreaction of federal regulation. The railroad industry was the first industry, national industry in the United States to be heavily regulated and that happened for a reason. It didn't just wasn't random that they got picked out. They had that monopoly and that was sort of a backlash which cost them a lot over time. And there still is a legacy from that you know it's a legacy in the English language. We're the only language where the idiom railroad is used as a verb which is synonymous to take advantage of someone. If you go to Europe or China and say you know talk about being railroaded they won't understand that use of the term. So that's from this part of that baggage that came out of the the 19th century approach and the relationship between governments and railroads have never exactly been the same. So even now when you're trying to negotiate it I guess it I heard it took 20 years to get your tracks back from the Union Pacific. You know there was some of that going on behind the the scenes. There's still that sort of adversarial legacy in place and that's something that needs to be fixed. And if you don't go beyond that and come up with a different model maybe one that can learn lessons from where the US went in terms of developing the rest of its transportation infrastructure you're not going to get as far. So when it came time to get beyond that rail monopoly besides regulating the rail roads to get them to stop misbehaving when it came time to build roads and other facilities the US took a different approach than land grants or one-time transfers of subsidies for private infrastructure. When it came to the air and road networks it was a public investment model that was brought forward. The US some people don't like the term but the US has been very much of a road socialist infrastructure policy when it comes to the the rest of its transportation system and this was a partnership that came out between levels of government between Washington DC and states and then local governments as well. It started in 1916 that was the first federal aid highway act that was put in place and it was an ongoing commitment to planning and financing these facilities jointly and keeping them in the the public sector and the interstate highway system was sort of the highest infrastructure outcome of that and again governments states which usually fight with each other found ways to work together to coordinate a national network of over 40,000 miles of of these in ways that California and Oregon and Nevada just have real trouble thinking about when it comes to passenger rail if it makes sense to cross state boundaries. That model was extended to regional airport development regional public transit development basically everything except for the rail infrastructure in this country was done through this public partnership between different levels of government and has worked reasonably well maybe it's not perfect and maybe one can do better but one has to recognize that there's lessons to be learned from this. The rail industry learned some lessons too that competing against publicly funded infrastructure when they were heavily regulated from their robber baron days was getting harder and harder and by the 1970s the US rail industry was heading into bankruptcy and the largest bankruptcy at the time in the United States it would be dwarfed by some of the more recent ones but at the time was the Penn Central which was the biggest railroad on the northeast part and the Midwest part of the US that spun off Conrail and Amtrak and led to a reinvention of the freight business and preservation let's say of the the passenger side and one of the reasons that reinvention happened with freight is because there was deregulation once government realized that the rail industry was not working and that it was on the hook for big subsidies for both Amtrak and even bigger ones at first for Conrail there was a move more open-minded approach to letting the railroads invent their own future and once deregulation came in in 1980 the freight railroads really changed their business model quite substantially before they used to be a universal mode of transportation carrying everything from the milk to individual parcels that you could go down to the station much the way you would send something by FedEx or UPS today commuter rail all different kinds of passenger rail that was left behind the approach for the reinvention of the freight business in the United States was niche markets heavy haul bulk resources was the beginning of that reinvention and then containerized freight moving long distances supplemented it and railroads are no longer trying to be all things to all people and they've really focused in on that which has implications for their tracks and their infrastructure first thing is you need a lot fewer tracks if you're not trying to be a universal mode of transportation so lots of tracks have gone away in the US rail network since the 1980s and single track lines have been kept where there used to be double track or sometimes triple track has gone to double most railroads have found ways to slim down their their infrastructure and as you're doing here other places have taken rails and turned them over to to trails there's 20,000 miles of rail rights of way that have been turned strictly into trails although if you those people read the very fine print in those agreements it does say that those trails can be reactivated and turned back into rails no one's had the political guts to try that yet in the United States and I think it's going to be very difficult if you do turn a rail right of way into a trail just because you have the legal possibility of reactivating it I'm not sure that it's likely that you'd be able to do that so those are big changes from and subtractions from the national rail infrastructure and then places like Monterey Bay here many short lines were created and developed some of them barely able to get over tracks that were overgrown along the way that looks a lot worse than what you've got on the left here and the major railroads transferred tracks sometimes directly to the private sector sometimes through public agencies like the one here and those short lines took niches usually specialized markets in those regions and operated over them so we had a real dismantling of the the rail network which used to sort of go everywhere and do everything and that changed the way the infrastructure was used but it also changed the economics I mean one thing we have to be proud of in this country is that we've come up with a freight rail system that is an economic success story in fact if you stop and think about it the freight rail operators in this country the only mode of transportation that's been consistently able to make money since 2001 think about the auto industry bankruptcies think about the airline bankruptcies now the highway trust fund is pretty much bankrupt in this country during that time you have to give credit to the freight railroads they've been able to cover their costs and reinvest billions into their freight infrastructure so that is a success story that we have on our plus side during that period while the rest of the world was inventing higher speed passenger trains and the people who are sort of into money pay attention to this you know Warren Buffett owns the one of the big Western railroads entirely the BNSF and Bill Gates is at one point he was the single largest investor in Canadian nationally certainly one of the big owners of stock in in that company if you want to make money the old joke in the airline business is if you want to make a small fortune in the airlines you should start with a large fortune and you'll get there fast in railroads it's the opposite people with large fortunes who want to make even larger ones are investing in that infrastructure because it's a success story but what that model took us down a different path than where Asia and Europe were going in building high speed rail lines of extended length and scope so let's take a look briefly at where they went there's sort of three different paths that have evolved in the 50 years so there's more than one model that works in different places for building high speed rail and there's three that evolved more or less in chronological order the exclusive corridor the hybrid network and then the comprehensive national network and each one became more ambitious in its own way of what high speed rail could do when it started out the high speed rail was running just between Tokyo and Osaka in Japan so just between here and here but then Japan is a fairly linear country with population concentrated on the main island although they are eventually going to extend it through a tunnel up to their north island as well but basically it's a dedicated single purpose high speed rail track that runs the length and of the country and is very actually it's the safest mode of transportation has been zero I repeat zero fatalities on the Japanese high speed rail system since 1964 that's a unique record and there's a reason for it because all the trains run at the same speed you know it's very easy to keep everything running safely if everything's running at the same speed they can run them three to five minutes apart and they don't get in each other's way it's very different countries like North America where you're mixing slower freight trains and trying to squeeze faster passenger trains around them there's reasons why the risks of that are higher and there's reasons why the Japanese decided they had the volume of passengers to just have a another layer of passenger rail operation on top of their freight they don't have much freight on rail anyway local commuter services on separate totally separate tracks so that dedicated Carter at first that's what people took away from the Japanese success stories it well you can only build high speed rail in places where you have cities of 10 million people and they're lined up you know every two to 300 miles that's really not what happens in other places even even other parts of Asia or Europe let alone North America so the people who are skeptical about this first model being introduced into North America had some some justification by saying this really is a different geography and mobility markets but the second model that the French and then the Germans adapted this is a map of Germany but there's similar you could look at France somewhat similar and other parts of Europe as well as called a hybrid network where you they develop trains that could run both on high speed trunk lines those red sections are the sort of bullet train equivalent speeds over 150 miles an hour and it doesn't show all of the conventional rail branches and networks that they can get on to but those trains are able to run to many cities in Germany that don't have much of the new high speed rail infrastructure by sharing the tracks that already exist and France also built its high speed GGV network initially between Paris and Lyon but then other sections where they would run partly on the high speed tracks and partly on existing infrastructure that was there so this this blending allowed for a much cheaper relative to just all bullet train from end to end infrastructure it allowed for blending of services you could mix and match there you see on the right the the high speed coming on its own trunk line at full you know 160 170 mile an hour speed and on the left it's coming into a junction city station where there's a commuter train right next to it and of course when the two trains arrive they'll have transfers for people are going to local destinations it'll be convenient to connect between them so that is the blended model that the Europeans took and are now actually scaling it to a continental model they're trying to connect up the high speed rail systems of northern Europe in France and Germany with the southern ones in Spain and Italy by building some linked connections but again blending and using existing infrastructure in parts so that you will have a network that goes all the way from Denmark in the north to Naples in the south does that mean people are going to take a high speed train from Copenhagen to Naples probably not just like you can take interstate 80 from the Bay area to the New York metropolitan area doesn't mean that most people do that the the average trip length on the interstate highway system by the way is under 200 miles so you know that that same logic could apply to the European high speed rail network it will cover thousands of miles but most people will use particular segments of it for a couple of hour trips and then we've got the third iteration of high speed rail model modeling if you will and that's the the Chinese who are thinking very big they are building the world's well they already have the world's largest in terms of length they have more high speed rail miles or kilometers in place than all the rest of the world systems put together and they're aiming for even more to come they are running the longest high speed rail services right now just in the last year there's been the inauguration of the big Beijing to Guangzhou which used to be called Canton in the south that's an eight hour trip it's about the same distance as Seattle to San Diego and when I looked it up on the schedule with a connection or two it's 35 hours on on Amtrak so that just gives you a sense they are looking they might think eight hours on a train to go over a thousand miles is still a long time but in China where you have a rapidly developing economy it's just great compared to spending they also used to have trains that took 35 hours and yet to sleep overnight and then spend part of the next day so it's a real boon and what the Chinese have realized for reasons that we could talk about in questions climate and energy issues going forward they want a transportation system that can move the majority of their population around their country without oil because these electric trains run on various energy sources some that we don't like like coal or nuclear but China is also building a lot of solar capacity out there so they have an open-ended energy system to move their domestic population for you know fairly long distance trips certainly ones that could fit both coasts of the US and the Midwest maybe not end to end although this morning I was talking I didn't include the slides here the Chinese I don't know if you caught last week or talking about an Asia to North America rail plan that would take them through a bearing tunnel which is only three times longer than the channel tunnel between France and the UK they have the money and the engineering ability to do this believe me they also have the ability to build trains high-speed trains it would take about two days to make that trip when you think those of you who may have flown Trans Pacific when you think about how much slower is that really from what you experience you probably spend a day with all of the travel involvement and then a day trying to recover from that kind of an experience if you had a two-day train trip where you had a little bed to sleep in along the way it may not actually be that much slower to get from you know the Bay Area to Beijing you know in 50 years time on that trans bearing high-speed train if the Chinese do take those plans forward but what that suggests is we've sort of had a divergence in North America we've changed our rail infrastructure to meet the needs of for-profit very successful long-haul heavy-haul freight operations while Asia and Europe have been perfecting ever more higher speed more more specialized technology to move passengers and these really are different engineering pieces of infrastructure now some people maybe some of you will say well that's great you know it's like summer from Mars and summer from Venus why not just have them both go their separate ways I think there's reasons why we may want to try and reconnect the the future lessons and maybe also for China to learn how to do some of the freight options better but the lessons are going to be sort of developed here in California if we are going to figure out how to reconcile modern passenger trains with the freight directions that North America has gone in it's going to happen in this state for since 2008 it's the first time that both a state and the national government have been committed to in a major way planning some sort of modern alternative passenger train remember in the mid 60s when President Johnson set up his demonstration program that was just a federal initiative and then when Amtrak came along that became the focus in Congress whether to keep Amtrak or get rid of it and there was never any time or money left over to talk about anything else really and then it was up to states like California to sort of figure out more local options and initiatives whether you voted for it or not proposition 1a the high-speed rail bond measure in 2008 and the election of the Obama administration put modern passenger trains on both the national and the state government's agendas for the first time really in a very long time even those land grants in the 19th century were federal only initiatives so we really haven't had unlike roads or transit or airports where it's always been a federal state team working on these transportation developments this is really the first time since 2008 where you've had both levels of government engaged and California has been the most engaged of all so it took four years to hammer out the financial negotiations and there's still legal issues and all sorts of contention about this but at least one milestone here is that for the first time there's been a commitment between the feds and California to split the cost of America's proposed first real new passenger rail track the line between Merced and Bakersfield in California and that's a the original 1916 highway assistance program was a 50-50 split between Washington and state governments and now we've got in 2012 sort of almost there a 55 state level and a 45 percent federal cost sharing of that initial investment and there's the the line and of course San Jose isn't on this one but we've got Gilroy nearby where the high-speed line will eventually reach to get to the bay area after this initial trunk line is set this is starting to look a lot like that blended rail model that the Europeans use to develop high-speed rail originally when the prop 1 a bond was passed I think the model was more an exclusive corridor like the Japanese pioneered and there's some people who are busy suing everyone and fighting that they still think that's the way to go and it's been a betrayal but the the point is that all three work you know that the mega model that the Chinese have the blended model that the Europeans have developed and the the Japanese corridor model each have their their potential the good news or the news for Santa Cruz County is that having a blended network which is where California seems to go where there's going to be sharing of track up into the bay area from Gilroy up to the Transbay terminal that leaves opportunities for connectivity and we're going to have to learn lessons on how to share to share with regional trains like the Cal train to share with the maybe not tracks but at least corridors is it possible for example to expand an existing freight rail corridor rather than blast a brand-new corridor through green fields or through other people's fields there's already plenty of people in the Central Valley who don't like the new alignments that are being built so there's going to be more lessons and experimentation trying to negotiate ways to share what's what's already available or in place I think and I think that I'm very excited that you know it's California that's going to invent the missing links to make this new model railroad as I call it it sounds like a Christmas train set or something but that's what it's going to be if it works it'll be a model that other others will want to copy California's first high-speed rail corridor will trigger a stampede maybe within the state and maybe with other states all trying to connect into this and replicate it if it works and I think Santa Cruz County is just one sort of county removed from being connected into this this very transformative piece of infrastructure so connecting the tracks you have here with this new model railroad could pay very big dividends the term that seemed to get everyone's attention this morning at the regional board meeting was leverage I mean here you have billions of dollars of federal and state money that's going to be spent to build this you know corridor that can get people from the Central Valley to Silicon Valley in an hour or so under two hours certainly that's going to be transformative you know all those people who are priced out of working in the Silicon Valley because they can't afford to live there and can't get there even from here it's getting tough you know all of a sudden places like Fresno and Merced and Modesto that have not have sort of been left behind by the economic growth on the coast of California will be plugged in and some people probably spend more time trying to get from one part of Silicon Valley to the other than people who are able who may be able to commute on this new high-speed rail network in 20 years time that's going to be transformative and will open up I mean if Silicon Valley has a sort of a price cap on how much it can do and how much it can develop in the high-tech sector just because of the cost of living there this will sort of take that cap off of it and being connected to that would be very powerful so you could have local trains connecting in these are pictures from France and Germany and those blended networks where you have regional trains that show up at places like Gilroy whatever these are French and German towns of that type and they pull up on one track and the high-speed rail pulls up on the other and people have a quick connection between them here I'll sort of close with showing that you can have a single track branch line just like in this county that's used actually by a high-speed rail this is the TGV that runs to Chamberee in the pre Alps as the French call them it's sort of the foothills of the Alps Chamberee has a population that's actually just a little bit smaller than the city of Santa Cruz at least according to Google when I looked it up the density is a lot higher they've built you can see the land use there the homes near the tracks and higher rise buildings in the background so it might be a different density but it's not that big a stretch to imagine a train that could come down at least some part of your line then get over to Gilroy or some other junction point with the California high-speed rail and then blast off to get you to Southern California or to the Bay area very quickly in the future not recommending that that's what you should do it's just to suggest that it's one of the options that could and should be on the table for your long term options for consideration it's definitely within the realm of possibility that's part of the lessons that we can learn from other parts of the world and if you want to read more about energy first transportation planning which was the model we put forward in our book that I wrote with Richard Gilbert that's the book I'm sure you can check it out of your library here or get it over the web and I'd be happy to talk with you about the issues that are on your mind after hearing these ideas thanks very much