Quoted from Alva White

OMG!!! How long has that road (Steeple Way) been there? I didn't know it was there.

It is about 3 to 4 years old.

Steeple way is a works in progress like every sub division the road is a binder course with raised structures when the sub division is near completion they will pave with top and everything will be level. It happens in all new consruction developments that way. With constant truck traffic due to construction it makes perfect sense. As far as road width its no different then any other Rotterdam street

Anyone else heard of plan's for a Popolizio's Hotel?

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Anyone else heard of plan's for a Popolizio's Hotel?

yes....i think there was an article about it in the gazette or times union a few days ago

Quoted from PlateUmp

Steeple way is a works in progress like every sub division the road is a binder course with raised structures when the sub division is near completion they will pave with top and everything will be level. It happens in all new consruction developments that way. With constant truck traffic due to construction it makes perfect sense. As far as road width its no different then any other Rotterdam street

The manhole covers on Steeple Way are much higher than the pavement.  It will take a lot more than a topcoat to level them out.  As for it being no different in width than any other Rotterdam street -- I am not sure that that is accurate.  Even a cursory drive around town would indicate that some side streets were built wider and other narrower.  Also, Steeple Way was treated like a low traffic side street when it was designed.  I distinctly remember questioning the developer's and some guy from the DOT's contention that Steeple Way would NEVER be used as a short cut between Guilderland and Helderberg (to get to Lydius Street and Route 146).  It is used as shortcut -- has a lot more traffic than it was designed for -- that is why it was allowed to be built so narrow.  There is not enough room for 2 way traffic if someone is parked in the road (and yes .. they do park in the road).  2 way traffic can get through any of the side streets in Colonial Gardens when people are parked on the street.
Steeple Way (the road itself) is just a classic example of PPP and PPC.

Steeple Way is an example of what happens when the players are paying....water table issues were ignored wetland issues were ignored. The lots were allowed to be much smaller that what is in the town code so that the builder could fit more houses in and make more money.

The road Steeple Way was approved by the town highway super (Longo) in the middle of a snow storm because the builder couldn't get it plowed and the home owners were infuriated with the builder. The latest road Diamond Place was approved by the town board without the Highway super (Longo) signing off on it. Why, because he didn't want to put his name on a road that was improperly built and was flooding. The end of the road had to be ripped up and rebuilt (I believe at town expense) with gravel from Timmy Larned, an investor in the Meadows project.

At the original meetings for the Meadows planning the builders attorney claimed that it would not be a pass though (as DVOR mentions) and that traffic heading to the thruway from the west side of the project would travel to exit 25A to get to I-90 because it was closer. Several people got up and countered that statement but no one was listening. A hydraulic engineer who lived off of Guilderland Ave. stood up and said this project was going to cause the backup of water into Masullo Estates which it was/did and the town spent millions to fix it.

Yeah the hole project was a PPP  (Paid-off Political Push)  

We were in this guy's (Buck-o) company this past weekend....and not on purpose.

talk about arrogant!!!

OMG!

He 'clearly' runs the show and calls the shots in the area...hands down!