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Amsterdam: Speed limit will be 30 km/h on most roads from today
(www.amsterdam.nl)
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30 km/h is somewhere around the point where pedestrians can walk away from a collision with a car. Not unharmed but likely without broken bones.
Yes you can bike faster, but a bike has much less mass so they're less dangerous for pedestrians in collisions.