New warning for anyone parking their car on the street
Motorists are being dobbed in by their neighbours as part of a new app, designed to tip off local councils whenever cars spend too long in metered parking.
The app, called Snap Send Solve, has been embraced with many residents taking the opportunity to report parking infringements, public hazards and other nuisances.
People living in the inner west of Sydney are among the nation’s biggest dobbers, with Leichhardt, Marrickville and Ashfield topping the list of complaints reported to the app.
Once a complaint is filed, the local council is sent in to investigate.
Snap Send Solve founder Daniel Gorog said the organisation had sent reports to more than 90 per cent of councils in Australia over the past 12 months, with the most common related to parking, rubbish, graffiti and problem trees.
“This year we’ve sent about 96,000 reports to authorities,” Mr Gorog told News.com.au.
“The biggest ones are about parking, it’s massive, we’ve received 14,000 reports about bad or illegal parking so far this year. People report anything from pot holes and overgrown grass to cracked paths and roads, damaged roads and graffiti.”
Snap Send Solve reportedly has access to more than 600 Australian and New Zealand authorities.
“It’s popular because it allows you to take a picture on your phone and register a complaint in seconds,” Mr Gorog said.
“Users don’t need to find out who is responsible for the area so you can send a report to council or the right authority in under a minute.
“Thousands of reports are registered with us a month because they can report a problem as they see it and don’t need to know who is responsible.”
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