When I visited Montreal I mostly walked and used their rental bicycle. I did take a few subway rides and being from Vancouver it didn't leave any specific impre

When I visited Montreal I mostly walked and used their rental bicycle. I did take a few subway rides and being from Vancouver it didn't leave any specific impression on me one way or the other - I got where I needed to get to (some suburb). The Skytrain to YVR is indeed very nice - built for the winter Olympics. Maybe not as "connected" as some European airports but quite convenient. The problem with transit in Vancouver is that most of it is rays emanating from downtown, i.e. you have fairly decent (though IMO worse than most large European cities) transit if you need to get downtown but it's terrible useless if you need to get across. My work used to be 20 minutes drive time, >2 hours transit time. Skytrain doesn't exactly cover the entire region, as you get further away from the downtown core the coverage gets much spottier until when you get far enough (but still part of metro Vancouver) it's non-existent. There are certainly times when buses don't show up on time. I take transit these days to work and back and I would say something like 30% of the time the bus isn't on time. About 5% of the time the bus I'm supposed to take just never shows up.