Like I said, I have no idea about the economics. But damn, it makes it easy and convenient to get from the airport to the downtown station (and very close to major hotels). And it's probably 5X faster. Of course, not every city has Vancouver's traffic bottleneck problems.
I think the ones on that list earlier are pretty explainable. Orland, LA and perhaps Houston all have so many variable destinations, a dedicated train line wouldn't work well. Ones that have trains had existing lines to tie into as well.
Monorail aside, the hotels in Vegas are really close to the airport and relatively quick to get to, so cabs/Ubers aren't a big deal.
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