Metropolitan Area is rather a misnomer for this universityreligious nut of a town The university owns most of the public land dictates city policy  and it is largely residential other than the two main arteries dissecting it College St from N to S and Opelika Rd from E to W Look at any US or Alabama State map and the area does not even register for a small inlet map detail Also a Metro area should have a decent public transportation system Tiger Transit is laughable Rather pretentious to refer to it as a Metro to anyone outside the insane college football zealots populating the area