{"id":396548,"date":"2026-08-03T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:51:58","slug":"safety-on-houston-roads-aug-3-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396548\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety on Houston roads (Aug. 3, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s show: Nearly one in five traffic deaths in Texas happen in the 13 counties the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.h-gac.com\/Home\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston-Galveston Area Council<\/a> covers. We learn about an upcoming public meeting the agency is hosting on how to improve those numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: We offer listeners a chance to vent their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/shows\/houston-matters\/pet-peeves\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pet peeves<\/a> about life in our city.<\/p>\n<p>And we discuss what the Astros might do before today\u2019s trade deadline and how they\u2019re positioned for the final two months of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday\u2019s show: Nearly one in five traffic deaths in Texas happen in the 13 counties the Houston-Galveston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2792,4977,122472,56,58,4978,57,74788,66,7677,223,21240,4979,154,272,14698],"class_list":["post-396548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-astros","tag-full-show","tag-hgac","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-pet-peeves","tag-local","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-pet-peeves","tag-shows","tag-sports","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}