At the March 7 meeting of VIA’s Commission on Intra-City Rail and Streetcar, the scheduled star of the agenda was a draft study of the potential economic impact from the proposed downtown streetcar lines. (Spoiler alert: the consultants said, yes, it would spur development along the chosen routes.) But it was upstaged by the Downtown Transit Update, a deceptively boring name for what could be a subtly revolutionary re-imagining of how we route traffic downtown.

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