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@adroit
You have clearly come to the view that 30 or 40 is acceptable.
Those sorts of speeds are actually quite high, and have come to be the norm. They make life very unpleasant for people using the road and the pavement who are not in the car.
There is a significant amount of research about this, and you should read some of it before launching you opinionated and obviously ill informed post.
The modern town is a victim of car domination. The costs of motoring far far outweigh the benefits. Slowing the car down where people live allows people not in cars to enjoy a higher quality of life.
Sadly the police are still a car dominated body and won't enforce 20 mph zones and politicians still think the car is a panacea and have just announced a huge budget to make car driving even more popular.
The Active travel project has been forgotten.
20 mph zones might take a while to embed, so that car drivers assume to be on the road as a less important road user than anyone else, but in a few years time if they were implemented widely our towns and cities would become far more attractive places.