>This article ignores a lot of peer-reviewed literature from planning, public health / injury prevention, and civil engineering in favor of some folksy wisdom of a lieutenant cop.
More than that, it's pure econo-meta - regulation is bad, freedom is good, if you leave people alone they'll behave responsibly, and everyone wins.
It's a moral parable (for economic values of 'moral') not a peer-reviewed paper.
Here's a newspaper piece that summarises some of the relevant peer reviewed research and draws a different conclusion:
More than that, it's pure econo-meta - regulation is bad, freedom is good, if you leave people alone they'll behave responsibly, and everyone wins.
It's a moral parable (for economic values of 'moral') not a peer-reviewed paper.
Here's a newspaper piece that summarises some of the relevant peer reviewed research and draws a different conclusion:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/may/13/speed-l...