Metropolitan Area Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot

The Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area (OMG-G-S) was ranked highly in two reports published this month which examined statistics to try to give a picture of how well cities are looking after their inhabitants and the health and happiness of inhabitants of urban areas.

The polls are now open for the residents of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia plus 9 other local councils in the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan AREA (OMG-G-S) to choose which local investments should receive funding this year.

Local governments from the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Association (OMG-G-S) are continuing to pursue a Metropolitan Union together based around the Tri-city area, although the idea may meet opposition from the government.

An application has been made to central government to create a Tri-city (Trojmiasto) Metropolitan Area which would give the three major cities and over fifty surrounding communities increased autonomy from the central budget.

Work on the planning stage for the new by dubbed the ‘Kashubian Highway’ is nearly finished and plans and visualisations have been released showing how the 64km expressway will look, when it opens, hopefully in 2020.

Gdansk residents have retained the city’s title as European Cycling Challenge champions by amassing an incredible 825,000km in May. The total beats all previous records for the number of kilometres cycled residents of a city during a month.