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MTA Celebrates Re-opening of Mother Clara Hale Depot With Ribbon-Cutting
 
November 20th, 2014 
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Martha Clara Hale Bus Depot

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast, New York City Transit officials, union representatives, and community and elected officials celebrated the re-opening of the Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Harlem on Thursday, November 20.  The depot opens for limited service on Sunday, November 23.

The new depot will house 120 buses serving the M1, M7, M35, and SBS M15 routes when the facility fully opens on January 4, 2015.  It consists of three floors, a mezzanine and has the capacity for 150 buses.  That will allow NYC Transit to accommodate any growth in the future. Starting Sunday, three routes will operate out of the depot: M9, SBS M60, and M98, with more joining them in January.

 NYC Transit worked with Harlem-based advocacy group WEACT and local officials involve the community in the depot’s design, which emphasized environmental mitigations.  The final result includes LEED certification; a green roof that uses plants to cool the facility, absorbs CO2 from the air, and reduces storm-water runoff; thermal insulation to save energy and reduce emissions; a solar wall that serves as a passive heating device; rainwater collection for water treatment to wash buses; cost-effective and energy efficient Heat Recovery Units on the roof for a heat exchanger and; a high efficiency white roof that will prevent heat gain in warmer weather, but will not reflect light onto nearby buildings or cause glare.

“It’s one of the most environmentally friendly facilities we’ve ever built, with state-of-the-art bus maintenance equipment that will go a long way toward enhancing service while minimizing our footprint on the surrounding community,” Chairman Prendergast said.

The Mother Clara Hale Depot was built in 1890 as a trolley barn and was modified in 1939 to become the 146 St Bus Depot.  It was rehabilitated in 1990 and renamed to honor Mother Clara McBride Hale in 1993.  In January 2009, NYC Transit began demolition to rebuild the depot for modern bus operations. Testing and commissioning activities started in March 2014, with final completion in November 2014 of the $262 million project. 

President Carmen Bianco commended the design, saying it “includes enough space onsite for employee parking and has an off-street queuing area for returning buses, which eliminates the need to wait on the street outside the depot.  Inside the depot, a system of interior traffic lanes and ramps allows all buses to enter and exit via Lenox Av to improve traffic flow.”

“This is a project several years in the making,” said Darryl Irick, Senior Vice President of Buses for MTA New York City Transit and President of the MTA Bus Company.  “And with the community’s involvement and input from the start, we have been able to deliver a modern, sustainable depot that will serve Manhattan residents for years to come.” 

NYC Transit made every effort to use Harlem-based firms and local personnel for the new depot.  The MTA worked with elected officials, trade unions, and private vendors to model programs that resulted in local training and hiring. 

MTA Arts & Design and NYC Transit also incorporated artwork into the depot’s design. The façade is embellished by the first art project coordinated by MTA Arts & Design for a bus depot.  “Mother Hale’s Garden,” by artist Shinique Smith, encompasses large-scale mosaic artwork installed on the east facade of the depot facing Lenox Avenue, and laminated glass artwork in windows on the north and south sides of the building.  The combined square footage is approximately 6,672 square feet. Smith collected clothing, fabric and other items from the community surrounding The Hale House and the site of the Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot to incorporate in her artwork. Ms. Smith also worked with first-grade students at PS242 to draw flowers and incorporated the children’s drawings into her glass artwork for the north and south windows of the depot.

To see photos of the event, click here. 

 
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M9!?!?

 

That's a long ass deadhead, unless they plan to do that stuff where it originates somewhere north of 29 street on 2 Avenue/1 Avenue (like the Bx38 in the afternoon and evening).

 

However, if this is true, I guess they'll make the M9 interline with the service that go down to the village.

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That's probably because logos fade in the light, and the old one used to roll around looking like it was two white people:

 

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LOL... Please... It's pretty obvious that those are not white people, even with the colors. I actually think the old logo looks better.  She looks jet black in this one and it's harder to see her and what she's actually doing.  The pink in the old logo around her made more since than it does in the new logo.

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LOL... Please... It's pretty obvious that those are not white people, even with the colors. I actually think the old logo looks better.  She looks jet black in this one and it's harder to see her and what she's actually doing.  The pink in the old logo around her made more since than it does in the new logo.

 

You got some weird issues with blackness, man. She doesn't look "jet black," she looks like a person of color, which is who Clara Hale was... Doesn't matter too much, anyway.

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You got some weird issues with blackness, man. She doesn't look "jet black," she looks like a person of color, which is who Clara Hale was... Doesn't matter too much, anyway.

Well I don't know what else you would call her new color... From the link you put up of her I'd say she was lighter than the current logo. It's just funny that she's become progressively "darker" with each revision. lol All people of color aren't jet black you know.  They come in various shades.  Just saying.

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You do realized the M3 is UP The Hill near Broadway at that area. The M10 is better at MHV. The only other route which they could've done was the M2 which passes through it

And the M2 was with MCH when it closed in 2007. Could have the M1, 2, 7 and 102. Some split routes too

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I really think the M9 is just a misprint, considering that there was a list of routes posted from the pick sheets that said what routes were going where.

 

Imagine the deadheads it would have to make to Harlem and back; talk about a waste of mileage.

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