Help Clean Up Toronto With Your Phone

From the Globe and Mail. Two Toronto City Councillors are pushing for a new program that would allow citizens to send text messages or camera phone pics to the city and point out problems.

"Councillors Cesar Palacio and Joe Mihevc want to create a Web-based reporting system similar to the "Love Lewisham" program, through which anyone with a camera phone or computer can alert the authorities to eyesores such as graffiti or illegally dumped waste using text messages or e-mails containing pictures and descriptions of the problems."

Personally I think it's brilliant if, and only if, the city then does something about it. City Hall is notoriously slow in dealing with the problems that are pointed out to them now (just ask these people).

If the city is actually going to respond to problems, I'm more than happy to take pictures of illegal dumping, graffiti (including illegal advertising), I'll even take video of cars illegally driving through crosswalks (see it every day), speeding, aggressive driving etc.,

But if it's just a program to call more attention to problems that still aren't going to be fixed then why bother?