Route 16
Flamingo Gardens
Faith Avenue / Bethel Avenue / Carmichael Road
This historical map has not been verified as a current bus route. Use it to help identify the streets, endpoints and service details that need checking.
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Research confidence
30%
Broadly sensible; neighborhood closure, exact terminal and mapped return/direction require work.
A weighted assessment of the research supporting this unverified route reference. It is not a probability that a bus runs today, a service guarantee, or a measure of timetable accuracy.
Why this score?
- Historical source clarity10 / 20
The broad neighborhood/downtown purpose is understandable, but incomplete local streets and materially different return interpretations remain.
- Mapped extent completeness10 / 20
Main corridors are present; the Flamingo Gardens passage and complete terminal closure are not established.
- Geometry consistency10 / 20
Two sequence breaks, four local direction conflicts and a degenerate transition remain within the connected reference.
- Recent direct field evidence0 / 20
No completed, reviewed ride record for this route is attached to the research baseline. Historical descriptions, map edits and unreviewed reports do not establish a currently observed full journey.
- Independent field corroboration0 / 20
No accepted independent check corroborates a dated route-specific field record in this baseline. Reuse of the historical official description is not independent observation.
What still needs checking
- Flamingo Gardens has no listed entry, internal streets or return to the initial Faith segment.
- The PDF downtown Duke/Blue Hill return differs from the mapped Market/Robinson return and needs explicit historical/current-direction treatment.
- Bethel-to-Thompson and Thompson-to-Poinciana need bounded connector/name treatment; OSM uses JFK/New Providence Highway/University Boulevard in the corresponding approach.
- The route has no exact starting point or terminal, so an apparent geometric closure cannot establish passenger loop operation.
Research reviewed 2026-09-10 · Assessment 2026-09-14
How you can help
Tell us which streets the bus uses inside Flamingo Gardens and how it returns from downtown. Show where it starts, turns or finishes.
Dated public evidence
What later sources tell us
These sources support only the dated claims shown below. They do not confirm the complete route today and do not change the current confidence score until a formal reassessment.
All aboard: JoBeth rides the bus
During a public-transport review, a bus-drivers union representative identifies the bus he operates daily as Route 16.
Limit: The report supports route-number use on that occasion but does not document the complete path, terminals, days or frequency.The Tribune
Additional evidence reviewed 2026-09-21.
Sources and scope
Faith Avenue/Sir Milo Butler Highway/Bethel Avenue/Thompson Boulevard/Poinciana Drive/Blue Hill Road/Cumberland Street/Navy Lion Road/Bay Street/Elizabeth Avenue/Shirley Street/Princess Street/Duke Street/Blue Hill road/Carmichael Road/to Flamingo Gardens.
- Source links
- Official route PDF - page 7
OSM route 16 - Official reference
- Route PDF, page 7
- Reference downloaded
- 2026-09-10
- Map last edited
- 2025-09-01 (source map history, not service verification)
- Attribution
- © OpenStreetMap contributors
- License
- ODbL-1.0
- Uncertainty
- No ride verification has been published; this historical reference does not confirm current service.