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NPR touches on this[1], while they agree that putting people on gridlocked highways is counterproductive, they do wonder why the mayor had yet to call for an evacuation when it was now clear where people should evacuate from. Being that they now know the areas in danger and the areas not.

[1]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546721363/...

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They do "wonder why" but then they list the various explanations and tradeoffs that have been made given the nature of the storm and the risks of the evacuation itself. The questioning is a rhetorical and slightly click-baity device, not actual disagreement, as far as I could tell.

NPR followed up with Lieutenant General Honore of hurricane Katrina and Rita experience[1] and he disagreed with the mayor's orders.

[1]http://www.npr.org/2017/08/29/546978194/with-much-of-houston...

That is good information and a good point of view to have, but it doesn't change your earlier misstatement about NPR, itself, "wondering why", which is the thing I was trying to add context to. (maybe you didn't mean it that way, I'm cranky ;))

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