The City of Corona went on a fixing spree today, closing several issues posted within the past couple days. Several cases of graffiti, like the one pictured above, were erased, two days after they were posted. And a broken park light, which one neighbor blamed a recent robbery on, was fixed only 19 hours after the issue was opened!

Corona has a SeeClickFix Plus account and is making sure that taxpayers get their money's worth, by offering them the sort of efficient, effective service that SCF Plus encourages.

way to go.

SeeClickFix joined the Prague-based Future Cities
Forum yesterday. It's a site where experts from academia and the public and private sectors can come together to share information about urban regeneration projects. Our first post is an overview of what we do at SeeClickFix.

Ben posted that 58th Street's road plates were making a racket when visiting Manhattan on Saturday. Three days later, a user named Steve reported that the issue was already fixed:

Steve (85 civic points) wrote 30 minutes ago

I'd like to think SeeClickFix.com is magic!

So, a team just arrived on E. 58th St and welded together the road plates. I've never seen this happen before.

Go SeeClickFix!

Newest map widget is up on the website of the Kingston Professional Firefighters Association.

Check out business mogul Jonathan Tisch's blog entry about SeeClickFix on the HuffPost. Tisch's book Citizen You comes out today and features a section on SeeClickFix's founders, among many other entrepreneurs who are "using their expertise to find new ways to solve old problems."

Tisch is the author of three books and Co-Chairman of the Board for the Loews Corporation. He is the son of Loews Founder Preston Robert Tisch, the 60th richest American, according to Forbes.com.

SeeClickFix has had its widgets up for two weeks now in the communities served by Journal Register Company newspapers. It's always interesting to see how new communities adapt to SeeClickFix in the early days of its debut in their city. Thanks to papers like The Trentonian, The Morning Journal, and The Daily Freeman, we've heard updates of how towns like Trenton, NJ, Lorain, OH, and Kingston, NY are responding to SeeClickFix.

Trenton, NJ:


Eric Jackson and Butter Allen, director and assistant director of Trenton's public works, respectively, are loving SeeClickFix so far. Jackson called it a "mechanism that works very well ... to ensure that we keep our communities real clean." And Allen, who's in charge of operations, said that his office manages to "respond within 48-72 hours" to posts on SeeClickFix.

When a reporter asked if Allen thought it was important to rely on the "eyes and ears of the community," Allen's response was clear and concise: "No doubt."

Lorain, OH:

SeeClickFix has galvanized the Lorain community into rallying against potholes. According to an article in the Morning Journal, a city council meeting on the topic last Monday was packed with residents.

That's hardly surprising to us at SeeClickFix–Lorain's SeeClickFix user-ship has exploded since the widgets debuted. Users already have logged around 150 issues for the city. The mayor told the Journal that his street commissioner Chuck Camera has been "bombarded" by SCF alerts (our apologies).

Unfortunately, the city is broke. “We just don’t have that money,” Camera told the Journal. “There’s not $4 million laying around somewhere to fix Oberlin Avenue," a street that has received more than 100 votes to be fixed on SCF.

The layers of pavement are about as thin as the budget. "We’re stretched thin," Camera said. "We’re stretched really, really thin."

While SeeClickFix can't raise capital that doesn't exist to repair Lorain's streets, at least it can let the city know which streets citizens want fixed the most.

Kingston, NY:

According to an article in the Daily Freeman this weekend, posts on SeeClickFix about drug dealing on Clifton Avenue presaged a break-in that occurred there last week. Kingston's users have posted several other issues about drugs, prostitution, and gangs on their message boards as well, which have generated lengthy dialogues among neighbors. It'll be interesting to see if SeeClickFix can help get any of these problems cleaned up.

Our thoughts are with the people of Nashville who are coping with major floods after a weekend of torrential downpours. Nashville has been one of SeeClickFix's most active communities, given our media partnership with The Tennessean, and flood-related issues have been streaming in. We'll be posting them here in order to keep tabs on them.

Issue 35831: Southbound lane on Blue Hole, south of Bell Rd - Approximately 3' x 9' of road has been washed out and destroyed, creating hazardous conditions if one doesn't know about it. Missing section of asphalt approximately 4-5 inches deep. 5371 Blue Hole Rd,Antioch,TN 37013,USA

Issue 35735: severe flooding, total destruction and loss. 516 Basswood Dr,Nashville,TN 37209,USA

Issue 35724: In 1552 - 1556 Brick Drive Area. Road has sinkhole forming (road is cracking) in the middle of the road that was not there before the flooding this past weekend. 1552-1556 Brick Dr,Nashville,TN 37207,USA

Issue 35639: Pavement, in lane heading towards Old Harding, on Poplar Creek Rd damaged by storms. 8011-8087 Poplar Creek Rd,Nashville,TN 37221,USA

Issue 35589: Automatic sprinklers running during water emergency

Issue 35539: Fesslers Lane is flooded over and there is a police car stationed there keeping cars away. 301-317 Fesslers Ln,Nashville,TN 37210,USA (pictured at right )

Issue 35524: Why aren't all self-serve car washes in the city closed or roped off since we are under mandatory conservation orders from city of Nashville & state of Tennessee? 1200 Gallatin Ave,Nashville,TN 37206,USA

Issue 35512: This culvert allowing stormwater runoff to Mill Creek has suffered major damage. The road is still passable, but the culvert will wash out with continued stormwater runoff.

Issue 35481: We've had no gas since some time on Sunday. No luck getting through to Piedmont Gas. 311 Chapel Avenue,Nashville,TN 37206,USA

Issue 35480: about 25 homes with severe damage in the Montague Community. 25 Historic houses on Falls Avenue affected. Need dumpsters to handle damaged items & any labor help greatly appreciated 1021 Falls Avenue,Madison,TN 37115

Issue 35478: Madison Blvd from Neely's Bend Rd is flooded. Houses are flooded to the roof. 700-780 Madison Blvd,Madison,TN 37115,USA

Issue 35459: several residents still trapped by surrounding water 113 Rustic Ct,Nashville,TN 37214,USA (pictured at right)

Issue 35456: Flood Debris needs to be picked up (closed around 10 o'clock EST on May 4th).

Issue 35390: @tngurl4274 @SeeTweetFix Sandbaggers Needed Rosa Park Blvd Nashville,Tennessee

Issue 35327: Northbound pavement washed out in right lane immediately after bridge. 10 Thompson Ln,Nashville,TN 37210,USA

Issue 35324: Flood waters ripped off a manhole cover on Hillsboro Road in Green Hills. 3812 Hillsboro Pike,Nashville,TN 37215,USA

Issue 35318: Flooding at Nashville Shores Marina, Hermitage,TN 37076 posted by Rick Harris (pictured at right)

Issue 35204: D Batteries Needed in Flooding at Bellevue Middle School 655 Colice Jeanne RoadNashville,TN 37221

Issue 35165: two mudslides with fallen trees have Dry Fork Road completely blocked, creek bank severly eroded beside road at these points, road may be unstable because of this erosion south of 4415 Dry Fork Road,Whites Creek,USA

Issue 34523: The stream flow under the bridge over Dry Fork Creek on Stenberg is largely blocked by flotsam that piled up in recent heavy rain. The creek was blocked enough that the water reached to bottom structure of the bridge during the storm. The flotsam needs to be removed. 4347 4355 Stenberg Rd,Whites Creek,TN 37189,USA