in reply to Announce: HoustonTx.pm

Hoo-rah! It's always puzzled me that in a city with more than four million people there has not been a pm club. Could be fun.

Of course, with such a large geographical area you could conceivably get multiple clubs, such as with the homebrewers around town -- in particular the inner-loop vs those rocket scientist types down there around Clear Lake.

Matt

P.S. Those homebrewing clubs, amusingly, are named The Foam Rangers, the Mashtronauts, and the KGB (Kuykendahl Gran Brewers).

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Re: Re: Announce: HoustonTx.pm
by jens (Pilgrim) on Oct 11, 2002 at 05:52 UTC
    It's always puzzled me that Houston, a city of more than
    four million people, hasn't got a single bus, not
    a single train, not a single gram of public
    transport available to the public.

    Hmmm...maybe there's a connection between people with
    enough good sense to use Perl, and enough good sense to
    take public transport?

    --
    Microsoft delendum est.
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      They're in the process of building a light rail from the Astrodome through the Med center into downtown. There *should* be one from downtown out to Katy, Sugarland, Galveston/Clearlake, Kingswood, and the airport and Woodlands.

      However, our friend Tom Delay has consistently blocked all funding at the federal level for rail in Houston. He's a bit of an ass.

      Perhaps I should turn him into a very small perl script.

      We do have the buses, however, even if finding the schedules and routes can be a pita.

      Matt

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        I remember a story from the early 90's about Southwest Airlines squashing a plan to build a high-speed rail between the big three Texas cities (San Antonio, Houston, Dallas), since traffic between those cities was a huge percentage of their business. Gotta love how the politicians are always looking out for their constituents.

        -Blake

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      Which houston are you talking about? Houston Texas has more buses that Cops, and we have a lot of cops.

      We also have more buses than Texas has executions

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