Will Randa now have to go on a "speed awareness course" so he can increase his speed to 20 mph ?

As Roger said, many other places are doing it too. In our town, most roads are 30KMS and in front of the bars and cafés, where people have the habit of walking into the road like lemmings, it's 20. So that's slower than your 20MPH. It takes some getting used to and some roads don't seem very logical. But, it's about time that the car stopped being king, especially in residential places.

Our road is being re-done. Works will last until April next year. But, the result will hopefully be a shared space where pedestrians and cyclists are proiority, the speed limit will be 30kms, a single lane for cars going both ways, ...... so cars will have to pull over to allow cars going the other way.......priority from the right, long speed bumps. Designated parlking spaces - no more random parking all over pavements.....plantings.... it might be bedlam, it might be wonderful. I'm feeling very optimistic. It's a very busy road during the day.

You will be getting overtaken and chased by the cyclists, the 20mph doesn’t apply to them.
Speed limits listed in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and also Rule 124 of the Highway Code relate to motor vehicles and not to bicycles.

We are going through the same process here right now. Our Speed Limits are being reduced on many roads. Sadly, we have had a rise in road traffic accidents / fatalities this year which is prompting this as a matter of urgency. I know it sounds silly but each individual road would really have to be judged to set a speed limit. Having a 'one size fits all speed limit' for rural roads is not really safe practice. I am very familiar with one road that is 80KPH Max and honestly 50 KPH is too fast for it. Likewise, we have long 'safe' straights with only farmland either side and this may be signed as 60 KPH. So quite a lot are being reduced now and this is causing consternation amongst many. Much debate on radio etc. Too many people see the limit as a target speed.

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the A1 motorway was 20mph today! we ventured up the learner route instead at 40mph.
seriously though how many of you can tootle in top gear at 20mph?
wont many folks be in 2nd x third gears hence more pollution.
them who broke the speed limit before will still carry on as they are suffering with "how great they are" complete with lead foot.

we drive according to the condition of road, weather, visibility, on narrow roads its 20 mph because of corners outgrown hedges and these local big tractors taking up all road traveling at 40mph should see all tractor brake marks on road! no wonder tractors wobble on road with all flat spots.

who is policing the cyclists who are doing 39mph in a 30mph zone..

have no issue with outside school road being 20mph, for some reason, youngsters have no fear of traffic will step out of gaps directly in path of a vehicle?
what happened to the tuffty club?
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/the-tufty-club

I am really saddened by how many of my fellow motorists around here (rural Suffolk) are incapable of keeping to the current 30mph speed limits in villages. People have become so selfish. And quite a few seem to be one speed merchants - 40mph everywhere... Quite a few times in small villages on our local A road (the A143 Great Yarmouth to Bury St Edmunds road) I have even had large articulated trucks trying to push me to go faster in villages.

It was a joke !!!!!!!!!