Quaxing

It is also a form of transport activism, bringing visibility to the possibility of a car-free life.

In January 2015, a local councillor in Auckland, New Zealand, Dick Quax tweeted, “No one in the entire Western world uses the train for their shopping trips…the very idea that people lug home their supermarket shopping on the train is fanciful.”[1] People responded with pictures of themselves doing their shopping by non-car means using the term #quaxing.

[3] Soon media outlets picked up on the trend and covered the story and its implications for politicians and planners.

[5] Public Address chose quaxing as their Word of the Year in 2015, which gained further media coverage for the trend.

Momentum Mag described quaxing as:"A rallying call to politicians to take the needs of cyclists, pedestrians, and transit users seriously.