Improve Your Intersection

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PORTLAND, OR - I'd like to think the reason Clarence Eckerson, Jr. came to town was to have me film him cavorting in a Bigfoot suit. The real reason he was here last week was to shoot this video this great Street Films video on Intersection Repair.

Intersection Repair is part of Village Building Convergence where hundreds of people come together to build diverse projects for the benefit of their communities and to take back their streets. The Sasquatch Video was just bonus.

This is an important and very well done film but at 10 minutes it runs a bit longer than most of our videos. Set aside a few minutes to watch and think about how your neighborhood could be improved by a community building project like this.

Three neighborhoods repair projects are highlighted in this video and the main task was to repaint the street. There is definitely a “Eugene” vibe (a good thing in my book) but each neighborhood had it’s own feel. As this concept takes off it will be interesting to see the different flavors particular neighborhoods bring.

The grid system combined with motor vechicles has a way of separating us as neighbors. Intersection repair seems like a great way to bring us back together.






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