THE demonstration by Swindon bikers against selfish parkers at Asda Walmart was a model of how such things should be done.

Most car drivers – indeed, most road users whether on wheels or on foot – are considerate toward one another.

We realise that unless we take each other’s safety and convenience into consideration, mean-spiritedness and self-centredness will become rampant.

There has been a very real problem with a minority of car drivers parking in the special bays reserved for motorcycles at the supermarket, and the bikers chose an excellent strategy to highlight the problem.

Parking their machines in bays reserved for cars was a simple, elegant and harmless way to make their point. It reminded car drivers how frustrating it is to seek out a parking space only to find it taken by a person who has no business being there.

Predictably, there were one or two hostile reactions from some of the nastier guilty parties. The reasonable ones, however, will now think twice if they’re tempted to park in the wrong place, even if they’re only planning to be in the store for a few moments.

The store’s management, perhaps understandably, would have preferred the bikers to come and discuss the matter, but the demonstration has almost certainly had a better outcome than such a discussion.

Rather than, say, lobbying for extra sanctions against straying motorists, the bikers simply showed those drivers the problem they were causing.