Putting my money where my mouth is.
So... After living in Japan for a year and touring Switzerland, im in my small Dutch village again with a shitty bus connection, and I'm quite sour about it. Yes I have a car, but I've seen how it can be done differently.
I saw the extensive train network in Switzerland and the shinkansen in Japan and I want that here!
Not just in the Netherlands, but European wide!
So about a year ago I decided to act, first by becoming a member of Volt NL and campaigning for them. After all Reinier van Landschot submitted this:
In the European parliament and is heavily pushing for more and better trains here in Europe, so next European elections I have to campaign like crazy to make sure that guy stays in the parliament!
But the political route is slow and tedious! So what else can I do? Well let's put the plan on dual tracks (pun intended) and support those who are going to make it happen.
Let's invest!
So I now have shares and bonds in European sleeper of around €2800,- (https://www.Europeansleeper.eu)
They already have the route Amsterdam -> Prague recently took over the slot Brussels to Berlin from OBB, will start a route to Milan next November, and are busy setting up a route to Barcelona.
Today they started a new funding route, because due to the Hormuz situation short flights are being cancelled and as a result, the trains get fully booked now ... To keep up with demand, they need more money. At this moment 1,5 million has already been funded. (Goal is 2 million)
I also invested €500,- in Heurotrain (https://www.heurotrain.com/) which are quite ambitious, but they're not up and running yet so I'm not dumping too much money into that yet.
This way I hope to bring European rail forward, both in politics as on the free market.
So let's go wild here! Fuck cars, fuck planes long live trains!
If you want to join investing it's on eyevestor and the websites of the companies themselves. Only invest what you can miss!
For USA readers: can you maybe invest in brightline or so? And ofc: brib... I mean, try to convince you state representatives!