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This is interesting - to me, at least. Today was the grand opening of the new Metro line from Istanbul's new airport (about 30 miles out, and practically on the Black Sea) into the city center. They opened the new airport - Europe's busiest - in 2019 and fully relied on big coach type buses. The old airport was connected to the city by Metro, and now the old airport has been put to some alternate use. This new high-speed line takes less than 1/2 and hour. It does not yet go into the skyscraper part of the city, but that's on tap and just a few planned stations away. It takes one more Metro train to go into the historical center ... and this high-speed Metro is not intended to ever go there, which is a good thing. This whole situation is analogous to Denver Stapleton flipping over to DIA, which is way the hell out of town. Denverites joke that it's in Kansas. https://www.dailysabah.com/business/transportation/erdogan-inaugurates-high-speed-metro-line-to-europes-busiest-airport Personally, I enjoy riding on different subway systems.