The app Snap Send Solve has recorded a doubling in the number of public transport vandalism reports from its users over the past 12 months.
The Victorian government says targeting of bus shelters is the most common type of vandalism across the public transport network.
The Department of Transport says it is cracking down on vandalism including using drones along train routes.
Reports of vandalism across Victoria's public transport network have increased by 50 per cent over the past year according to a popular app.
The creator of Snap Send Solve claims it received more than 5,700 reports of vandalism and graffiti on public transport across Victoria between October 2025 and last month.
Bus shelters were the most common target for vandals, with nearly 3,700 reports received in the past 12 months — double those of bus shelter vandalism reports from the previous year.
"This isn't a general rise in vandalism, and it isn't app growth," said Snap Send Solve chief executive Danny Gorog, whose app launched in 2013.
Vandals were targeting "shelters specifically", he said.
Snap Send Solve's bus shelter figures include all reports of vandalism or graffiti to the app in Victoria which describe bus shelters or stops.
Mr Gorog said they received about two million reports annually for issues ranging from potholes to graffiti, from some 1.25…
