In 2017, motor vehicle crashes cost the Houston-Galveston area approximately $6.4 billion in injuries, lost lives, and property damage. Not surprisingly, traffic safety is one of the top concerns expressed most frequently by our region's residents. Under the direction of the Transportation Policy Council, staff is finalizing a Regional Safety Plan to combat the region’s most prominent traffic safety issues. A major component of the plan is widespread public education on safer travel as a driver, pedestrian or cyclist. 

The Regional Safety Campaign will develop and deliver public safety education, training and information on focus areas such as  distracted driving, driving while intoxicated, speeding, proper use of child  safety seats and seat belts, and safe traveling as (or driving in the vicinity of)  pedestrians or cyclists. Activities will range from the development of public outreach materials, information handouts, training sessions, videos and media targeting teens, bicyclists, pedestrians, and automobile drivers. The goal for the regional safety outreach campaign is to reduce the total number of crashes, fatalities, and serious injuries.

Texas Department of Transportation

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Request authorization to enter into Local Project Advance Funding Agreement CSJ# 0912-00-584 with the Texas Department of Transporation for funding of the Regional Safety Campaign; total amount not to exceed $1,830,842. (Staff Contact: Alan Clark)