Pointless dispute

Some time ago I read a discussion on the internet about cyclists riding on pavements. This particular was about the area of Merkury shopping centre and I found it pointless for many reasons. Generally I agree that cyclists should ride on bike lanes or on the streets, however it's very dangerous to ride on the streets of Warsaw because many drivers don't pay attention to cyclist and overtake them at high speed and without keeping proper space between the car and the biker. Second thing is that cyclist are rudely told to ride on the other side of the car lanes where in fact the bike lane is but it is this side of the street where the restaurants, shops and offices are located so you would need to go long way to the zebra crossing and back again on pavement which is nonsense. Last thing which I noticed was a general conclusion saying that cyclists are bad and don't care about the people walking on pavement. Bike society isn't as mean and rude to people walking on the centre of bike lane or crossing it wherever and whenever they want. It would help if people were able to make more objective judgements and before they criticize someone they should think if they are not doing equally bad things to others.