Residents and community members around Kingsbridge Garden Circle in Mississauga centre are not happy with Metrolinx.

The provincial transit agency has started an expropriation process for part of the parking lot at 10 Kingsbridge Garden Circle and plans to build a traction power substation as part of the 19-stop Hurontario LRT project.

The community group Kingsbridge Matters is organizing a protest and event planned for Nov. 3, which features a structure of 36 shipping containers where the substation is planned to go.

Grant Gorchynski, a member of Kingsbridge Matters and CEO of the company that owns land where the substation is to go, said the "art exhibit" of containers and planned protest will highlight how destructive the plan could be to the area.

"It's to demonstrate and show the decision makers that this is a vibrant, lively and unified community," he said. "Putting this transformer there is going to destroy all the good and happy that this community has developed over all these decades."

Metrolinx spokesperson Nitish Bissonauth said in an email that the exact dimensions of the substation and its foot print on land will be known once a vendor and model have been selected. Other substations in the province, Bissonauth said, are around five metres wide, 10 to 15 metres long and 3.5 metres high.

Substations, like the one planed for the Kingsbridge parking lot, will power the LRT, running along the project’s corridor.

Gorchynski said the location of the substation at Kingsbridge “makes no sense” and there are other less-populated areas where it could go.

**Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 3:52 p.m. with a comment from Metrolinx.