Most New Orleans residents frustrated with street conditions, drainage, poll finds

A poll published this week by Resilience New Orleans, an Entergy-backed advocacy group that supports investments in city infrastructure, found that two-thirds of New Orleans voters think the city is headed in the wrong direction and that large majorities had been affected by infrastructure woes.

The telephone survey of 520 New Orleans voters, which was conducted by New Orleans pollster Dr. Silas Lee & Associates, offered perhaps an unsurprising confirmation of a longstanding opinion of residents: widespread frustrations with city infrastructure.

Some 71% of respondents in the telephone survey, conducted from Aug. 5-11, rated maintenance of street drainage as fair or poor, while 79% said the condition of streets in their neighborhood were fair or poor. Street conditions, like potholes