Poll: Tulsa wants good roads and more jobs

Respondents talk about the city's most pressing concerns.

Streets, jobs and the economy remain Tulsa's most pressing problems, the most recent Oklahoma Poll found.

Thirty-one percent of the 405 Tulsans surveyed from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 named streets and roads as the city's No. 1 problem. That was down from 44 percent in October 2008, just before voters approved a five-year, $451.6 million street improvement program.

Twenty-one percent, up from 17 percent a year ago, said the most pressing problem is jobs and economic development.

"The streets are in terrible shape," said poll respondent Sue Duncan. "Now they're trying to fix them . . . but that doesn't change the fact that they waited too long to start."

Harold Hill, a retired University of Tulsa professor, said job losses put a strain on the entire community.

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