The city has published the route of its free shuttle.

It is a drawing, and it is not the drawing in the packet.

The STAR Circulator page carries a route diagram now, with eighteen numbered stops on it and an unnumbered one at the top marked START / END, which is the Visitor Information Center. The staff study map attached to item 10.A on Aug. 10 also had eighteen numbered stops, and they are not the same eighteen. That map is headed Star Circulator Study Map and its own note says it is intended to inform Staff, so a difference between the two is not by itself a broken promise.

The published route has a stop at A Street and the public beach access, at number 12. The August map has no such stop anywhere on it. Number 15 on the published map reads Embassy Suites / Pier, where the August map reads Embassy Suites and says nothing about a pier.

Going the other way, the two Plaza stops are gone. The August map put stop 3 at 150 Charlotte Street and stop 18 at 173 Charlotte Street. Both were named Plaza. The published map puts 2 and 18 at Cathedral Place and Cordova Street. That is what the Sept. 25 release said the loop would do.

The thing the packet had that the page does not

A time. Every one of the August map’s eighteen pages carried four departures, so a reader could see that the first shuttle left the Visitor Information Center at 9, reached St. Augustine Beach City Hall at 9:29 and was back downtown at 10:26. The memo under it put the whole thing at a 1.5-hour loop.

The published diagram has no clock on it at all. There is no headway either. Nothing on the page says how long a rider waits at the Quality Inn.

The city named the image file STAR.Route.NoTimes.

An address. The August map gave one for every stop, down to 605 A1A Beach Blvd. for the Courtyard. The published diagram gives names and nothing else. A reader who already knows where the Hampton Inn is does not need one. The page gives no run time either, where the memo put the whole loop at an hour and a half and the study map had it back downtown in an hour and twenty-six minutes.

What the counts now say

The memo asked for sixteen new stops. The Sept. 25 release said fifteen. On the published map the island stops run from number 3 to number 17, and that is fifteen, which settles a disagreement this paper printed on Oct. 1 in favour of the release.

The hours have grown past what the memo proposed. It asked for service seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The page now gives 9 to 9 Sunday through Thursday and 9 to 11 on Friday and Saturday. That is two extra hours on the two nights anybody was going to ask about.

And the end date came off

The memo was plain about this. The expanded route was “proposed to operate until the start of the Nights of Lights season, at which time service will be modified to accommodate the City’s seasonal transportation demands.”

Nothing on the published page says that at all. The page carries no end date at all, and the Nights of Lights beach shuttle block that sat on it a week ago has gone too, along with the line telling a reader to check back for 2026-27 information later this year.

The Passenger Guidelines heading went with them. Under it, passengers were permitted one complete circuit and had to get off at the end to reboard, and the final service left the Visitor Information Center at 10 p.m. That rule was written against a loop of 1.12 miles. On a route that runs to the Quality Inn and back it decides whether a rider gets home, and the page no longer says whether it applies.

What a rider has tonight is eighteen stops, two sets of hours and a picture. The packet had more than that in August, which is fine.

Nobody was going to open it.