Is Mississauga getting a new GO train station?

Mississauga might be getting a new GO train station that would reportedly be built near a huge waterfront community that’s under construction and starting to take shape in the southeast part of the city.

While there’s no official word a new GO station is in the works for the Lakeview area of Canada’s seventh-largest city, Mississauga-Lakeshore MPP Rudy Cuzzetto said at a press conference Wednesday morning an additional station is planned for the Lakeshore West Line, which travels through Mississauga.

He briefly mentioned the GO Transit plan in remarks at the outset of the media gathering (see video below), which was held at the G.E. Booth Water Resource Recovery Facility located south of Lakeshore Road, just west of Dixie Road.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and numerous other officials were also on hand to speak about the various infrastructure needs of Mississauga’s rapidly growing Lakeshore corridor, in addition to other municipalities across the province. The focus was on water treatment facilities, but the notion of a new GO station was also brought up by the Mississauga MPP.

“We’re adding over 20,000 new homes along the waterfront at the Brightwater (development) and Lakeview Village,” said Cuzzetto, referencing the two largest developments rising up along Lakeshore Road in Mississauga. “This includes thousands of new affordable and attainable homes within steps of transit, including a new GO Transit station on the Lakeshore West Line to offer more transit options to get more cars off the road and more people out of gridlock.”

Mississauga-Lakeshore MPP Rudy Cuzzetto, shown here at a press conference Wednesday morning in Mississauga, said the Lakeshore West Line, which runs through Mississauga, is getting a new GO station.

Located immediately to the west of the water treatment plant that hosted provincial and local officials at Wednesday’s press conference, Lakeview Village is a 177-acre live/work community that, when completed years from now, is expected to dramatically transform the city’s waterfront, the developer (Lakeview Community Partners Limited) and city officials have said.

Initial plans called for 8,000 new homes to be part of the development, but that number has been doubled to 16,000 units.

Work was set to begin this summer on new homes, affordable housing, parkland, community benefit projects such as a landmark public pier that will stretch 600 metres out into Lake Ontario and other initiatives planned as part of the waterfront community.

The Brightwater community, meanwhile, is a development that will bring some 3,000 new homes in addition to numerous retailers to the Lakeshore and Mississauga roads area.

Contacted Thursday by INsauga.com, officials at Metrolinx, the provincial agency that oversees GO Transit, said any plans for a new GO station in Lakeview would have to be studied further.

“New transit stations and other significant transit infrastructure projects are studied to ensure operational feasiblity and overall benefits to the network. Lakeview Village requires further analysis,” a spokesperson for the agency said in an email. “Metrolinx will continue to find opportunities to improve transit access for customers living in Mississauga.”

Seizing on Cuzzetto’s comments, a number of people took to social media in the wake of Wednesday’s press conference to suggest the provincial politician was, in effect, saying a new GO station would be built in the Lakeview area of the city.

City councillor “not aware” of plans for a new station

An account on X (formerly Twitter) that goes by the name WB62 posited a new GO station will be built in that area, between the Port Credit station to the west and Long Branch (Toronto) to the east along the Lakeshore West Line.

Furthermore, they said, a completed station at that location would provide as many as 40,000 residents with access to frequent rail service.

INsauga.com attempted to contact Cuzzetto for comment, but he has not yet responded.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Mississauga Ward 1 Coun. Stephen Dasko said the councillor “is not aware of any plans” for a new GO station in Lakeview.

When Metrolinx released details back in March related to service improvements along both Lakeshore West and Milton GO lines, they did not mention anything to do with a new GO station in Mississauga.

Other improvements to GO service have come

Tens of thousands of Mississauga residents and workers were expected to benefit from those other service improvements, which included significant expansion to GO service in the form of 308 new weekly rail trips across the GTA and beyond.

It’s the largest expansion of GO services since 2013, officials said at the time.

News of those upgrades came on the heels of a major announcement in early February when it was revealed by the Ontario government the Milton GO line would soon be expanded to offer two-way, all-day service.

Mississauga and Milton GO train commuters had been waiting years for such a commitment from upper levels of government.

When completed, Lakeview Village will feature transit-connected housing, office space, retail, restaurants, trails, parks, greenspace and cultural and recreational amenities.

It will also be connected to the nearby 64-acre Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area, named for the late city councillor who worked to bring the project to fruition.

The conservation area is on track to open to the public in July 2025.