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20 mph isn't designed to affect the whole country, just residential streets and town centres, how is that making driving unpleasant? It just makes sure it is safer for all the other folk that use the roads.
What is having an impact probably unwittingly I think is the unreal insurance costs for young drivers. £3,000 to insure a mini for an 18 year old boy? (an old type mini too!)
That will eventually teach a whole generation that motoring is so expensive it isn't worth while.
So the aspirations of a lot of young people is a bike, especially as bikes and fashion have started to merge. It will take a while but as long as cycling is seen as trendy, or rebellious, or different youngsters will naturally be attracted to it.
Hopefully.