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Kyle Poat Named Chief District Engineer For District One

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Poat most recently served as Project Development & Preservation Engineer.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has named Kyle Poat Chief District Engineer for District One.

Poat follows Mike McGregor who spent 24-years in transportation and retires at the end of this month.

Poat most recently served as Project Development & Preservation Engineer. He has been involved with the construction of the new Tennessee River Bridge at Ledbetter, the new Eggners Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake and the new Lake Barkley Bridge at Canton.

Most recently, Poat supervised reconstruction and upgrades to the I-24/I-69 interchange near Calvert City. 

Taylor is a recent Murray State University graduate where she studied journalism and history. When she's not reporting for WKMS, she enjoys creative writing and traveling. She loves writing stories that involve diversity, local culture and history, nature and recreation, art and music, and national or local politics. If you have a news tip or idea, shoot her an email at tinman1@murraystate.edu!
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