In this photographer's limited experience, it's the latter. If you are crossing a 20mph side road adjacent to a 30 mph main road, you still need to fit enough to sprint across the side road at speed -more speed than 20-mph everywhere areas.
Sometimes they've tried to deal with this by narrowing the pavement, and adding bollards to stop you cutting over the pavement at speed. This road looks like it is actually two-way, so narrowing down to one lane at the junction is very aggressive.
Presumably bikes can take the corner on the pavement and let their front suspension handle the high-speed landing as they push off the edge of the build-out.
Other roads have less traffic camling; this child who has the audacity to ride his bike on the pavement is as at risk to cars turning at speed on a 20 mph side road as if it didn't have a speed limit.
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