metropolitan area is rather a misnomer for this university religious 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