This wooden pole was erected as a temporary pole for traffic lights when someone was working on stuff at this intersection (there used to be others at other corners.) . It apparently belongs to Hydro and I have been talking to them about it for several years (yes, really). They cannot remove it until the wire that some other utility (or City?) has attached to it. I reminded my contact there again yesterday so some month it may finally go. The mechanisms for utilities to remove their wiring from old poles owned by others is clearly VERY poor as there are many examples of old poles beside new ones - King west of University is a good/bad example where TTC put up new poles by THSL has not moved their lights from old poles and we see duplicate poles. There seems to be no way for utility or City to give its 'pole tenants' a deadline to move their wires/equipment and that kind of thing is clearly nobody's top priority - except UTers!!