I'm genuinely curious -- other than a 'transit is about politics in Toronto' dismissal, why would numerous transit engineers draw up plans for this section of the east Eglinton LRT route, and not hit on your 'obvious' choice? Would construction costs be prohibitive? Re-routing cause expensive issues with the tunnel after Laird (e.g. having to move the tunnel mouth to the south side as well?) Maybe my faith is misplaced, but I tend to think that traffic engineers aren't stupid, and they've been working on this route for many years. Why would they miss something so obvious to you?