Ehsan Khandaker of Kingsbridge Matters, a community group organizing to stop the substation, doesn’t believe it has to be placed in the parking lot of 10 Kingsbridge, and say it negatively impacts residents and businesses in the area.

“You don't take land, when that land has more need for the community and businesses,” he said. “We talk about helping businesses, (the substation) is not helping businesses at all.”

Kingsbridge Matters organized a protest and event on Nov. 3 in the parking lot featuring a structure of 36 shipping containers where the substation is planned to go. The structure featured a mural that appears to depict Metrolinx officials as well as a rendering of the substation with armoured vehicles guarding it.

In an email, Metrolinx spokesperson Nitish Bissonauth said the shipping container structure "grossly exaggerates" the size of the planned substation. The design of the substation and its footprint in the parking lot have not been finalized, but Bissonauth said the structure will likely be five metres wide, 10 to 15 metres long and 3.5 metres high.

Grant Gorchynski of Kingsbridge Matters and CEO of Lisgar Commercial Real Estate, which owns the land where the substation is slated to go, said the structure was a “bold statement” that will likely be up for some time.

He said Kingsbridge Matters are not NIMBYs (not in my backyard) and that the LRT is a “great thing,” but Metrolinx has to properly consider feedback from residents and community members.

“What we're saying is that if you're going to do something that's going to be here for 100 years, do it properly,” he said.

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