Is Atlanta's Airport Train America's best Metro?

The USA is not known for having the greatest metros, but what is the greatest metro in the USA? Admittedly the ATL Plane Train is not really a 'metro,' but it's a super interesting system worthy of discussion! Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:49 - defining a metro 2:15 - the measure of a metro 4:09 - quantitative comparison to other US metros 8:06 - what’s the lesson here? 9:47 - thank you + bonus! Video Sources Hayden Clarkin’s substack article that started it all: https://thetransitguy.substack.com/p/... NTD Data: https://data.transportation.gov/Publi... Atlanta City Auditor’s Report: https://www.atlaudit.org/plane-train-.... ATL Reports (including 2024 report cited): https://www.atl.com/business-informat... Links to the Taipei Brown Line with a peak headway of 72 seconds: https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr16/p... and https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr16/f... which is part of https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/backissu... That 3D map of the airport I included: https://www.atl.com/maps/ New Plane Train article: https://www.airportsinternational.com... A couple of articles about the IBX being a Light Metro: https://jonahgottlieb.substack.com/p/... and https://empire.streetsblog.org/a-cruc... Cost Estimate of LA Metro Eastside Corridor Phase 2: https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-... Read about how Nashville rejected a rapid transit system: https://transitcenter.org/publication... Awesome map design of fantasy Las Vegas metro (for upvoting):   / oc_a_subway_under_the_las_vegas_strip   Thumbnail image source: https://www.airportsinternational.com... Music Cipher - Electronic Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...