Especially over the last few years around most of the east coast, for me Apple Maps has become far better than google maps for everything, except reviews. Especially for biking and public transport as you said.
I find the reviews in Google Maps to be (like Yelp, TripAdvisor etc) to be thoroughly useless. Tourism-driven companies are loaded up with manipulated reviews; cafes and restaurants get ratings that often bear no resemblance to reality. The sad fact is, even where reviews are genuine, the people who leave reviews on a mainstream site like Google Maps are not a representative sampling.