I love the woman's energy and I'm willing to believe that Atlanta's transit is obsolete. In fact, I'm with her that the bullet train people need to be begged for their mercy and labor. However, you probably don't spend billions making these stations and high speed rail for Atlanta specifically. That's a project for a non-failed state to go across vast swathes of land. You'd probably find yourself despondent when your train travels across urban hellscape, destitution, and black sludge fields instead of the Japanese countryside where all the projects of man have some respect for nature and aesthetic.

Though, with some preliminary googling, it looks like I'm being pedantic. There's every reason why you'd want to revamp the transit instead of having a big police budget any given year. You just don't need the intra-city transit to be mag lev trains.