Asked amid a flurry of design changes and shifts in street policy whether he was abandoning Houston’s goal of eliminating vehicle deaths by 2030, Mayor John Whitmire in February 2024 said a goal for the future wasn’t what the city needed.
“My commitment to ending the loss of lives starts right now,” the mayor said at the time. “Not years from now.”
Less than a year later, 2024 ended as the deadliest year for drivers, passengers and pedestrians in the city’s history. At least 345 people were killed on Houston area streets last year, a record high after two years of declines.
Source: Houston road deaths reach record high in 2024, with over 340 deaths
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