ROAD PLAN DOESN'T PLEASE RESIDENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer

Bethlehem With children riding their bikes and neighbors walking their dogs, Elm Avenue used to be a quiet street that cut right through the heart of residential Delmar.

But throughout the last dozen years or so, the cracked and unevenly paved road has become the preferred route for large trucks headed from the east side of town to points west.

``When we back out of the driveway in the morning, sometimes we have to wait three or four or five minutes,'' said Elm Avenue resident David Barnard.

Unfortunately, say Barnard and his neighbors, a plan by the Albany County Department of Public Works to improve …