When it comes to the District’s streetcars, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City is diametrically opposed to overhead wires. It’s just become kind of common knowledge among those who follow transit news in the region, kind of like how every Redskins fan knows that Dan Snyder will recklessly spend a lot of money on old free agents or everyone in town knows to stock up on bread before snow hits the area. But, in fairness to the C100, they don’t actually hate the idea of installing streetcars — far from it. At least that’s the takeaway from a 91-page report released by the Commission earlier this week.

As Lydia DePillis and Dr. Gridlock have already noted, the C100 examined every one of the system’s proposed 37 miles, taking stock of what a streetcar track would mean for several different aspects of the urbanist’s consciousness. And they weren’t dissapointed, on the whole: “Overall, the proposed routes make sense and should boost investor confidence in many areas of the city that need new centers of economic life,” the report notes — though the C100 did identify several areas of the plan which they believe need further study, namely the already-under-construction Anacostia line and how the H Street segment will actually connect to Union Station, which still remains somewhat of a hairy situation.

One could make the argument that the document is the closest that the C100 has come to actually endorsing the streetcars. It’s also hard to argue with the report’s overt suggestions that the public be more involved in the process, a point that the authors hammer at several times. At the very least, the report — taken in tandem with the recently released streetcar website — is a tidy way for those of you who might have spaced out to get caught back up with where the whole deal stands at this point.

The entire report is available to read after the jump.