Just for some perspective, I was at the first Elevation show in Miami, and there was no transition into streets per se. I think the song before was Bad, but they just finished the song and then started Streets. I remember I thought that was too bad because Streets transitions are in fact highlights of any U2 show.
Anyways, after a few shows they figured a way to do a transition with a 40 snippet and as we all know it was AWESOME! So there is still hope it will get better this time around too... But they MUST have the blind lights at the beginning, that's what the whole song is about live. I hope they change it. If you're not going to have the build up at the start, might as well not play the song...