Resident Emre Borat, a25-year-oldcomputerengineer, welcomed the proposal. "Actually their projectis notlikedividing up into two, but morelikecreating [newcities] fromIstanbul," he said.
He became the department's Essex County residentengineer in January 2005, overseeing road and bridge projects and all DOT maintenance personnel in the county.
Fayette, Essex County's residentengineer since 2005, spoke to the paper for an article that was published Aug. 30 to mark one year since the storm badly damaged roads in Essex County and elsewhere in New York and Vermont.