What about that weird pole
Question: As you head down Alumni road before you get to Chinoe Road there’s three strange looking wooden poles on the right side of the road in either the shape of a football goal or a mathematical Pi symbol. There’s two poles standing about twenty feet apart vertically with a horizontal pole across the top. What is this? It’s been there for about a week.
Answer: Kentucky Utilities spokesman Cliff Feltham had a quick answer to this question. KU is doing a transmission line rebuild and the extra polls are used as a safety barrier. When KU has to redo a pole, if the pole has sag, the extra poles keep it from sagging all the way to the ground. KU is replacing the current transmission lines with heavier lines. The extra poles will be taken down after the rebuild is complete.
Linda Niemi
Filed under: Lexington info
My mother was a public school librarian. I earned a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky. The Herald-Leader hired me as a news assistant 25 years ago; soon after, I moved to the news research department, where I’ve been ever since. We used to clip newspapers. Now, almost all of our research is online. We've come a long way.