New Orleans Department of Public Works gives update on progress of projects, enforcement of golf carts [Video]

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Department of Public Works held a news conference on Tuesday, May 7, to provide updates on the progress of two city projects after numerous calls by city leaders to address safety issues.

“So far this year, we’ve repaired 1,689 outages. That’s including interstate and local roads,” said DPW Director Rick Hathaway. “We’ve resent 198 leaning poles, installed 44 new poles and retrieved 67 knocked down poles.”

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There are currently around 250 lights being worked on across 27 sites.

“There are a substantial number of lights that are out and we’re working to repair those,” said Hathaway.

With hurricane season starting in three weeks, DPW officials say their catch basin cleaning program is making progress.

“Along with our contract, we do in-house drain cleaning. We have on average, three daily crews per day that handle drain cleaning and vacuuming of the drain lines. On average, our crews clean …