Students hijack train with school work: “We want to make it clear that public transport is far too expensive for young people” (Antwerp)

Fifteen students traveled with their study books by train from Antwerp to Charleroi. They used balloons and streamers to draw attention to the expensive tickets. To wake up politicians, they feel free to take another long study drive.

“We want to make it clear with this campaign that it is far too expensive for young people to travel to school or to their hobbies by public transport,” said Lore Ost (15), one of the students who attended the event on Wednesday afternoon, May 1. train hijacked.

Students traveled with their study books from Antwerp via Brussels to Charleroi and back. There were fifteen in total, nine of whom were Flemish and six Walloon students. The five of them left from Antwerp-Central and along the way students joined us gradually.

The organizers are active within the student umbrella organization and therefore know all too well what is going on among young people.

“Within the student umbrella organization we work in project groups to address the different priorities of students. We surveyed no fewer than 20,000 secondary school students to identify these priorities.”

Ultimately, the students organized this action independently of the organization.

Worth repeating

“The conductor only checked our tickets and other passengers seemed to like our original study club.” They turned the long study drive into a fun time with balloons, streamers and snacks.

“Surprisingly, we were not delayed. It was a very long time on the train, but we had plenty of schoolwork to work on and the company was of course great!”

According to Lore and the other students, it should not be limited to a one-off action. “I think this is a good example of the types of actions we can take to draw attention from politicians. I would definitely do it again!” (mdcl)