city-owned buses on Staten Island. When Isle Transportation went bankrupt in 1947, the city's Board of Transportation (predecessor of NYC Transit) took control of the majority of Staten Island bus operations. It was built to hold 135 buses, and can now store about 340 buses. Following the closure of the Brook Street Depot, Isle Transportation's original facility, in 1958, Castleton Depot was the only city-owned depot on Staten Island and was known as Staten Island Depot. The next permanent depot to open in the borough was Yukon Depot, opened in 1981. Fleet OBI Orion VII EPA10 Nova Bus LFS LF40102 MCI D4500CT Prevost X3-45 Routes Local Routes: Express Routes: Charleston Depot The Charleston Depot is located at 4700 Arthur Kill Road near the Outerbridge Crossing in Charleston (). The facility includes a two-story building, with enough room to service and maintain 220 buses, but also includes outdoor parking for buses and employees. The site was selected in 2000. The depot was announced in September 2005 as part of the MTA's 2000-2004 Capital Plan, to relieve the overcrowding and maintenance and storage pressure's between the Castleton and Yukon bus depots, both of which had limited bus storage space. The depot was also intended to help expand express bus service in Staten Island, and improve service for then-36,000 Staten Islanders who used express buses. A new depot had been planned for around 30 years, and attempts to secure funding lasted around a decade. After delays due to lack of funding, construction on the depot (then called the Charleston Bus Annex) began on February 15, 2008. The depot was opened on December 6, 2010. Fleet Nova Bus LFS LF40102 MCI D4500CT Prevost X3-45 Routes Local Routes: Express Routes: , , Meredith Avenue Depot The Meredith Avenue Depot or Meredith Depot is located at 280 and 336 Meredith Avenue, at the intersection of Meredith Avenue and South Avenue (formerly Chelsea Road) near the shoreline of Arthur Kill and Prall's Island in Chelsea (). This depot was constructed in 2009 to expand storage capacity in the borough, with the MTA operating the site on a 15-year lease. The depot was built on largely vacant land, with the exception of an 1890s-era house. It has space for 80 buses, and light maintenance facilities. It operates only from Monday to Friday, and houses exclusively express buses, which are rotated from the other Staten Island depots. Meredith Avenue