Doug Ford promised to build a new local train station. Metrolinx says its a bad idea [Video]

A Ford government plan to build a new GO station beside a marquee development in Mississauga, first announced last year, disregarded advice from the province’s own transit planning agency, Global News has learned.

Last spring, the government revealed it was granting a Minister’s Zoning Order to supersize a development on Mississauga’s waterfront, bypassing local council plans and allowing the new community to jump closer to reality.

As part of the announcement, the government said the developer behind Lakeview Village would help to deliver a range of new local benefits, including a new train station along the local GO line. The promise has been repeated since by both the premier and local Progressive Conservative MPP.

Internally, however, work done by the provincial transit agency, Metrolinx, recommended against building the station. Documents obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws said a new station would bring too many complications for too few benefits.