Metrorower

Metrorower (Metrobike) is a year-round public bicycle-sharing system in the Metropolis GZM (Silesian Voivodeship) in Poland.

[1][2][3] System is available and connect 31 form 41 cities of GZM Metropolis including Katowice, Gliwice, Chorzów, Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza and 26 others.

In order to solve this problem, GZM signed an agreement with Nextbike integrating the existing systems managed by it.

Applications to participate in the procedure were submitted by 2 companies: CityBike GlobalQ and Nextbike GZM, and on April 6, 2022, the phase of talks with them began.

[19] On October 31, 2023, the official presentation of the metrobike took place in Katowice with the participation of the chairman of GZM Kazimierz Karolczak [pl] and the president of Nextbike Tomasz Wojtkiewicz.

On 26 January, GZM made an auto-amendment to its budget, so that the first stage of the implementation of the Metrorower could cover an additional – 8th city (Chorzów).

On 23 February, the GZM assembly adopted a resolution enabling the acceleration of the implementation of the second and third phases of the Metrorower for the turn of July and August 2024.

[7] On February 25, 2024, the system was launched with 276 stations in 8 cities (Chorzów, Czeladź, Gliwice, Katowice, Siemianowice Śląskie, Sosnowiec, Tychy and Zabrze) and 1860 bicycles.

Information totem at one of the stations
Generation 3 (left) and 4 (right) system bicycle
phase 1 municipalities
phase 2 municipalities
municipalities not included in system