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Strictly speaking, they asked for extra funding to enforce it at first, but I think that was rather a lot, and they didn't get anything, so that they adopted the policy of not taking on the burden of enforcement. I should also have mentioned that there were a few short-lived enforcement actions when 20mph was brought in in Islington and Hackney (with some Council funding, I think), but nothing since.
Oliver Schick
I hadn't realised the police refused to enforce them. I live opposite a school on a busy rat run, 20mph obviously, and cars turn into the junction at the end of the road, metres from the school, so fast sometimes they can't keep left and go round the other side of the traffic island - i.e, they enter on the wrong side of the road. Next to a school. A teenager was hit there a couple of months ago by a woman going too fast (though on the right side of the road I think), badly injured, and the cops stationed a car further up the road for the rest of the day, presumably to look for anyone speeding. I haven't seen them since. What a shower of shit.