Citizens of Rome have a new weapon to combat traffic or, better, to help police officers find double-row cars and vehicles blocking sidewalks: Twitter. Incredible to say for a city as bureaucratic as Rome, yet an online service has been activated on Twitter that can be used by everyone to draw the attention of the brigade about the cars in the double row and the one parked in a parking ban.
From a month until now, more than 1, 100 tweets have been sent, often with photos, to report cars parked in contravention in the true sense of the word, to ask the police to intervene with fines or removals .
In addition to optional photos, citizens The exact location of the cars, so the police can quickly intervene.
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The tweets do not fall on deaf ears, and it is the official PoliziaRomaCapitale account that takes care of the calls and answers.
For example, to the tweet:
@PLRomaCapitale via Bormida at the corner with via regina Margherita, cars prevent pedestrians from crossing.
- John Wurstel (@JohnWurstel) January 29, 2014 The police replied "report taken in charge" and in a few hours could announce the outcome of the intervention and the fines made.
Illegal traffic and parking are always big problems in Rome, a city with a poor network of public transport, where there are only two subways for 3 million people.
More than half of the citizens of Rome use private vehicles with an impressive ratio of 70 cars per 100 citizens according to statistics.
City police, impossible to find around when needed, responded to 740 of the more than 1, 100 warnings received so far, releasing hundreds of fines.
To make a complaint online, just use then open Twitter on PC or smartphone, write in which street the vehicle is parked badly or parked prohibited and add @PLRomaCapitale to direct the public message to the official account of the Police of Rome .
Unfortunately, the brigade staff responds only to reports received from 09:00 to 18:00, local time, from Monday to Friday.
For those who want to complain about how Rome is managed and report all the problems of the city, you can write on the blog, now very popular, Romafaschifo.com.
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