Twenty miles an hour should be easy, yet for millions of drivers it’s oddly stressful, unintuitive, and dangerously easy to get wrong
Twenty-mile-an-hour limits are rapidly clogging up the arteries of UK cities. Proponents tend to wave away any resistance with the same breezy refrain: What’s the problem? Just stick to twenty. Twenty’s plenty. Alright then.
This isn’t about reopening the endless argument over whether 20mph limits are right or wrong. That debate has become so polarised it’s practically its own motorsport. What interests me far more is the quieter, more universal question that ordinary drivers keep asking themselves. Drivers who genuinely want to do the right thing, obey the law, and get home without stress. Why is it so damn hard to drive that slowly?
