If you’ve ever wanted City Hall to work like tech support, your dream has sort of come true. A new website, SeeClickFix, will take your complaint and create a trouble ticket. More than that, in San Francisco they’ll automatically forward the problem to the appropriate SF Supervisor’s office.

Though the site is based in New Haven, Conn., they have a local volunteer who coordinates San Francisco issues. The site already has more than 500 open issues and over 200 closed ones. I think that’s for the whole site, not just San Francisco, but statistics are a little hard to come by.

ow all those open tickets get closed is a little more vague. According to an email from site founder Ben Berkowitz, just as anybody can open a ticket, anybody can close one — or reopen it.

Clearly it’s an idea requiring a certain amount of cooperation and good will. I was concerned that some crank could overload the system with dozens of complaints a day, rendering it useless, but Berkowitz said they have “human moderators to control excessive and possibly fraudulent clicking.”

But hey, I’ll give it a try. Huge semi trucks get lost on my block all the time, because they turned the wrong way on Cesar Chavez and now they’re trying to get back across the freeway… maybe some enhanced signage would help them find their usual destination, the San Francisco Produce Market in the Bayshore industrial district.

In a blog entry in which he discusses that and other side projects, he calls the site “a quick hack” for which “I don’t have the time or resources or desire to build the ideal solution. I hope that some big ISP or networking outfit takes the simple design and puts it in front of a proper setup.”

If that concept sounds familiar, not surprisingly Payne works at Twitter.