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O Bike in Melbourne: A plea for more scepticism about disruption and capital, based on what we can know about one dockless bike scheme
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice ( IF 6.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 , DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2020.07.016
Peter Chambers

This paper seeks to contribute to a critical dialogue on disruption and the sharing economy by reflecting critically on O Bike’s appearance and disappearance in Melbourne, Australia. Recalling the credulousness that attended the arrival of O Bike’s fleet between June 2017 and 2018, this paper gives primacy to considering whether O Bike was ever about bicycles and transport, showing how the scheme aligned itself with hyped discourses of disruption and the sharing economy, whose true beneficiaries were startup entrepreneurs developing platform-based schemes seeking venture capital and unicorn status. In Melbourne, this ‘success’ left the city with hundreds of bicycles in its waterways, and little insight or curiosity about how this was generated by a group of individuals carrying out their professed modus operandi of 2010s tech startup culture, which has no meaningful, enduring relationship with public transport or urban cycling. This re-telling of O Bike’s dispersal and fall in Melbourne seeks to focus attention within transport studies and political geography on docked and dockless public bike schemes to the occluded centrality of venture capital as a key agentic force at work in global cities in the decade just passed. The limit of this re-telling is the utopia of 2010s capitalism: unlimited profit and success without regulation or responsibility. By offering critical counterfactuals from this instantiation of dockless, it encourages policy makers to think more carefully about the value and meaning of ‘sharing’ platforms.



中文翻译:

墨尔本的O Bike:基于我们对一个无人码头自行车计划的了解,呼吁人们对破坏和资本产生更多的怀疑

本文旨在通过认真反思O Bike在澳大利亚墨尔本的出现和消失,为关于破坏与共享经济的重要对话做出贡献。回顾O Bike车队在2017年6月至2018年间抵达时的轻信,本文优先考虑O Bike是否涉及自行车和运输,并说明该计划如何与大肆宣传的颠覆性话语和共享经济相结合。真正的受益者是创业企业家,他们正在开发基于平台的计划,以寻求风险投资和独角兽身份。在墨尔本,这种“成功”使整个城市的水道中留下了数百辆自行车,而对于一群人如何执行自己自称的2010年科技创业文化手法的产生,这几乎没有洞察力或好奇心,与公共交通或城市骑行没有有意义,持久的关系。O Bike在墨尔本的散布和倒塌的重述旨在将交通研究和政治地理领域的注意力集中在停靠的和不停靠的公共自行车计划上,将风险资本作为十年来在全球城市中发挥作用的主要代理力量的封闭性集中起来通过了。这种重述的局限性是2010年代资本主义的乌托邦:没有监管或责任的无限利润和成功。通过从无坞站的实例中提供关键的反事实,它鼓励决策者更加仔细地考虑“共享”平台的价值和含义。这是对O Bike在墨尔本的分散和倒塌的重述,旨在将交通研究和政治地理领域的注意力集中在停靠的和不停靠的公共自行车计划上,以将风险资本作为十年来在全球城市中发挥作用的主要代理力量的封闭性集中起来通过了。这种重述的局限性是2010年代资本主义的乌托邦:没有监管或责任的无限利润和成功。通过从无坞站的实例中提供关键的反事实,它鼓励决策者更加仔细地考虑“共享”平台的价值和含义。这是对O Bike在墨尔本的分散和倒塌的重述,旨在将交通研究和政治地理领域的注意力集中在停靠的和不停靠的公共自行车计划上,以将风险资本作为十年来在全球城市中发挥作用的主要代理力量的封闭性集中起来通过了。这种重述的局限性是2010年代资本主义的乌托邦:没有监管或责任的无限利润和成功。通过从无坞站的实例中提供关键的反事实,它鼓励决策者更加仔细地考虑“共享”平台的价值和含义。这种重述的局限性是2010年代资本主义的乌托邦:没有监管或责任的无限利润和成功。通过从无坞站的实例中提供关键的反事实,它鼓励决策者更加仔细地考虑“共享”平台的价值和含义。这种重述的局限性是2010年代资本主义的乌托邦:没有监管或责任的无限利润和成功。通过从无坞站的实例中提供关键的反事实,它鼓励决策者更加仔细地考虑“共享”平台的价值和含义。

更新日期:2020-08-21
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