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Detour, delay, no signal: commuting by public transport without stress

7 November 2026

Practical tips for the daily bus and tram commute: how to check disruptions and detours, get around a late trip, get an alert before your stop and use the timetable offline.

Three things usually spoil the daily commute: a detour nobody warned you about, a trip a few minutes late that costs you your change, and no signal at the wrong moment. You can prepare for each of them once and benefit every day.

Set up what you use every day once

• Favourite stops. Tap the star next to a stop and its departures are in your favourites as soon as you open the app.
• The “My stop” widget. Pin a stop to the home-screen widget and see the next departures without opening the app.
• My places. Save home and work. The “My places” widget plans a trip to them in one tap.

Disruptions and detours

The Disruptions tab collects the operator's notices for your city: detours, closed stops, route changes. Each notice lists the lines it affects, and the list of lines can filter to just those with disruptions.

In settings, choose the lines you ride and turn on notifications about changes on my lines. New disruptions are checked when you open the app and while you browse, so it is worth a look before you leave home. The planner also flags a route if any of its lines has disruptions.

When a trip is late

The timetable says when the vehicle *should* come. What counts is when it really will:

1. In the planner, watch “Leave in X min”: that is when to leave home, with the vehicle's delay already included. More about how the planner calculates routes in A planner that knows about delays.
2. If a change is tight, open the vehicle you are on and check its time at the change stop. If you clearly will not make it, plan again: the planner takes current delays into account.
3. Before an important trip, check the line's punctuality on its page in the timetables or in the punctuality ranking. Some lines are regularly late at the same time of day.

Don't miss your stop

In a vehicle's details, tap the stop where you get off (or where you are waiting) and the app lets you know when the vehicle is close to it. Handy in an unfamiliar part of town, and when you are reading or dozing on the tram.

Without internet

Your city's timetable is stored on the phone, so scheduled departures and the planner work without signal. In settings (Data and offline) you can also download over Wi-Fi:

• the timetable for the next days, so it works after midnight too,
• the city map,
• addresses, to search streets and places without internet.

Without a connection only live data is missing: vehicle positions and current delays. The app then shows clearly that the times come from the timetable.

On a computer

The same departures, the delay-aware planner and the vehicle map are in the browser version, with nothing to install. How to see where your bus is right now is in a separate guide.

Read next

• Choosing your city in Wiesz Kiedy: 32 cities and metro areas, switching and travellingHow to choose and switch the city in Wiesz Kiedy, which cities have live vehicles, how metropolitan areas work (the Tricity, the GZM metropolis) and what the app does when you are in another city.
• The “My stop” widget: how to put departures on your home screenStep by step: how to add the Wiesz Kiedy widget with the next departures from your stop to your Android home screen, how to change the stop and what to do when the widget is empty.
• Live departures from a stop: favourites, nearby and the stop timetableHow to check live departures from a stop in Wiesz Kiedy, add a stop to favourites, see stops near you, the full timetable and the lines' typical delays at the stop.