said by TheGeeze: In the United States, such steps have been determined a public hazard and are no longer allowed on new poles.
Might I suggest if you are going to quote Wikipedia verbatim, that you also include the [citation needed] reference.
Please, while I no longer have a dog in this hunt, I am curious and would like to know more about this. Do you have insight into this being the case..information that for whatever reason, other than a one line blurb on a Wikipedia page, cannot be found on the Internet..?