James Arey:  

February 2023 Update:: Well here we are in 2023. I retired in 2016. I worked 16 plus years after retirement from NYS DOT which describe below. In 2006 I started a second carrier as a transportation planner in Elmira planning and funding new highway and bus transportation projects. I loved my job. I had lots of interaction with old friends from DOT and folks who became new friends in Chemung County and the Regional DOT. I am most fond of remembering the bike and pedestrian and trail projects I helped guide to completion. and those I planed and funded for others to complete. I am now active as a Lion and as a Dog Park member.. Molly (our dog) and I walk with two other men every day for a few miles. I go to sporting events in the East and we both travel some each year. Our kids are working and single: son in Philadelphia and daughter in the Schenectady area.. Itook a new job in May, 2006 in Elmira, New York. I love my new job. After a transition 6 months we bought a new home in the middle of October, 2006. It is 5 miles north of Ithaca, New York with a view of Cayuga Lake from about 100 feet away. Karen and I love the place. I feel at home because I get to commute 38 miles to work again, like I did for 30 years from Sprakers to Albany, New York. We are painting rooms and moving stuff and I feel in some respects like I am a young man again doing what 30 year olds do. Well, I guess I am trying to ignore that I turned 61 two days after Thanksgiving. Our new address is: 1377A Taughannoc...Expand for more