Gregory's Server@siderea I remember years back abandoning Google Maps for transit when I left the US, because the data it was working off was extremely limited.
A big task for local public transit apps is to know which APIs to pull from for a given region - what municipal & private organizations actually operate here and where they publish their data.
At the time, Google Maps seemed to mainly be aware of the US-based firms (Uber etc), plus a small handful of bus lines they manually imported.
@siderea That definitely gave the illusion that hiring an uber was the best option - otherwise you'd be stuck waiting an hour for the bus.
To combat that, our transit stops have a printed list of apps which actually use the city's API. Google Maps isn't listed.