Voter passage of Spokane Transit Proposition 1 in 2016 began the first phases of the transformation, by funding interim improvements to passenger amenities, bus size, and increased service hours of the route, which have upgraded the existing route into an HPT "Lite" line within the Spokane Transit network.

In April 2021, Spokane Transit Authority adopted a locally preferred alternative for the alignment, vehicular mode, and other BRT strategies.

[4] The plan, called Connect Spokane, included a section dubbed High Performance Transit (HPT), which was described as a network of corridors "providing all-day, two-way, reliable, and frequent service which offers competitive speeds to the private automobile and features improved amenities for passengers."

[2] The Division Street corridor is identified in the High Performance Transit (HPT) section of the Connect Spokane plan as route "F1", and is part the plan's HPT-Frequent category, which stipulates a line that provides moderate speed, with high access and frequency, focused on multi-modal first/last mile connections.

Mid-term strategies for the route included enhanced vehicles, improved frequency, and additional amenities and park and rides.

[11] However, in December 2019,[12] STA and the Spokane Regional Transportation Council began a $1 million study to evaluate how transportation and land-use along the North Division Street corridor could be transformed after the anticipated 2029 completion of the North Spokane Corridor, which is expected decrease traffic levels along Division Street.

Highly transformative options were also studied for the Division-Ruby Street couplet, located in the southern portion of the corridor.

[14] In summer 2021, STA put a request for proposals to select an engineering firm to further develop the bus rapid transit project.

[1] Project funds are still unknown, however, in March 2022, the Washington State Legislature passed a $16 billion state-wide transportation package that would include a $50 million appropriation for developing bus rapid transit along Division Street.

Early design visualizations suggest stations will be based on the same design as that of Spokane's other bus rapid transit line, City Line, with glass windscreen and roof panels set along a curvilinear roof beam form, along with off-board ticketing kiosks, raised platforms, branding pylon, and real-time transit info displays.

Spokane Transit will run 60-foot, zero-emission articulated buses along the route, similar to the equipment selected for the City Line.