Tricity, Poland


Tricity, or Tri-City is a metropolitan area in northern Poland, consisting of three cities: Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, as well as minor towns in their vicinity. They are situated adjacent to one another, in a row on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, in Eastern or Gdansk Pomerania. The Tricity metropolitan area has a population of over 1 million people.
The name Trójmiasto was used informally or semi-formally only, until 28 March 2007, when the "Tricity Charter" was signed as a declaration of the cities' cooperation.

Economy

Nearly 35% of taxpayers from Tricity are in the middle and high taxable income groups. Approximately 12% of Tricity taxpayers are in the highest taxable income group.

Population

The total population of the 3 cities comprising Tricity :
The Tricity metropolitan area also includes Wejherowo, Reda, Rumia, Pruszcz Gdański and several other communities. The total population in 2006 was 1,100,500, in an area of 1580.69 km².
The Tricity continuous urban area includes following cities:
cityarea
1996
km²		area
2017
km²		pop. 1996pop. 1999pop. 2003pop. 2018
Gdańsk265.03261.96462,336457,937461,011466,631
Gdynia135.49135.14251,932255,014253,500246,309
Sopot17.3117.3143,36042,33341,01736,046
Pruszcz Gdański16.4716.4721,47021,75723,18730,878
Rumia32,8630.10?40 20043 00049,031
Reda26.3933.4615,42217,51017,86825,810
Wejherowo25.6526.9947,35747,03846,90049,789
Total513.42504.96882,871884,080885,240904,494

According to official EU publication the population of Larger Urban Zone of Tricity is 1 098 379.

Education

The Tricity is an important center of education.
Some of the universities in the Tricity:
Cinemas:
Theatres:
Opera house and Philharmonic
Museums and art galleries
Tricity has a temperate climate with warm summers and cold winters that can be very severe. Rain is possible all year round. Summer is the best time to visit when temperatures range from 70 °F to 90 °F, but evenings can be cool enough to require a sweater. Winters are wet, cold and grey.

Sport

Tricity has a number of professional teams, which compete in basketball, volleyball, speedway, handball, rugby union and football.
The most known football clubs, contesting the Tricity Derby, are Lechia Gdańsk and Arka Gdynia, both of which also possess highly successful rugby teams (RC Arka and RC Lechia. There is a third top-flight Polish rugby team Ogniwo Sopot, making the Tricity Poland's rugby capital. The third football club is Bałtyk Gdynia.
Wybrzeże Gdańsk are the Tricity's speedway team, formerly a multi-sports club, now its only other remaining section is the reactivated handball team, former ten-times men's Polish champions.
Asseco Gdynia and Trefl Sopot are the two men's professional basketball teams, while Lotos Gdynia are their female counterparts.

Transport

The Tricity has a well-developed public transport system.
Development of the Tricity was smoothed by the construction of the city train 1951, binding the whole area from Tczew by Gdańsk, Sopot 1953, Gdynia 1956, Reda, Rumia to Wejherowo 1957.
The backbone of the Tricity is the inner highway. It starts in Gdańsk and goes through Sopot, Gdynia, Rumia and Reda to Wejherowo. It consists of 2-4 lanes in each direction.
In 1975 the dual carriageway Tricity Beltway was constructed. It starts in the vicinity of Pruszcz Gdański and goes through the western districts of Gdańsk to Gdynia-Chylonia.
There is a plan to build a new line of Szybka Kolej Miejska to connect the Baltic Arena with Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport.

Rail

Local Rail

The Tricity area is served by the SKM rail network which operates many routes in the area, acting partly as a commuter rail connecting the outer-lying towns and villages of the area with each other and the central cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, and partly as a sort of metro or light rail service in the urban core centred around the three main cities, with frequencies ranging from every 6 minutes during peak time on the main common section between Gdańsk and Gdynia to 30 minutes at the farthest ends. The local rail network has had a unifying effect on the urban area since it began service in 1951, creating a frequent and reliable service that connects the various settlements of the region.
In 2015, the Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna opened, connecting the centrally located Gdańsk Wrzeszcz with Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport. The 19.5 km line also provides connections to the SKM network at its northern and southern termini.

Intercity Rail

The area is well connected to the rest of the Pomerania region, as well as Poland and the rest of Europe. The Przewozy Regionalne network provides a regional rail service connecting the cities and towns of the Pomerania. Gdańsk Główny and Gdynia Glowna serve as major rail hubs for the area, with these stations and several others offering inter-city services to cities around Poland and in other countries, operated by Polish State Railways under the PKP Intercity branding. Most of the stations that are served by regional and inter-city rail are also part of the above-mentioned SKM network.

Airport

is one of the three main international Polish airports. Its position is associated with a well-developed network of domestic and international transport connections provided in response to the growing demand for business and tourist travel.
The Gdańsk Airport is located a mere 10 km from the centre of Gdańsk, about the same distance from the centre of Sopot and 23 km from the centre of Gdynia. The continually expanding road system which connects the airport with the city centres allows drivers to cover the distances in about 15–20 minutes. The close vicinity of the Tri-city by-pass and junctions with state motorways nos. 1, 6 and 7 facilitates access from areas outside the Tri-city. The convenient location of the airport makes it easy for travellers and cargo carriers to transfer from air to road, and also to the railway network and seaports. Gdańsk Lech Walesa Airport has its own railway siding which can be used for handling large lots of cargo dispatched by air.
The efficient Gdańsk Airport operates even the biggest planes and allows thousands of tourists to visit the Pomerania province every day. Just in front of the main entrance to the passenger terminal, the visitors can find a bus that will take them to the city centre. They may also choose to take a taxi that will take them wherever they want to go in the area of the Tri-City for a relatively small price.
Getting airport by bus
Airplanes connections with GDN:
Ferryboats connections with Gdynia, Sopot, Gdańsk:
The variety and a number of connections make the travel around the Tri-City and surrounding areas very easy. One of the most popular means of transport in the Pomerania province is the public bus. There is a great number of bus lines and they cover every district of the three cities of the metropolis.
In Gdynia, except normal buses, there are also Trolleybuses.

Foreign representatives

Gdańsk:
Gdynia:
Sopot: