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Yesterday morning like every Tuesday morning almost, I was sat at the table of a coffee shop called Le Placard on Mont-Royal avenue. This place is very interesting because of its concept: they serve food, delicious fair trade coffee and the whole place is filled with used clothing they sale and plastic mannequins. The ambiance is great and not too noisy even though many people is passing by or stay for a while. I used to take few minutes to listen to what the old men that come almost every morning are saying about actuality. It is always interesting to see places on the Plateau who still have both trendy and simple people as clientele. Anyway, yesterday I listen to a conversation between the owner of the place and a neighbor. They were talking about how difficult it is to get an outside bench installed from the city. There are asking them for 4 years but nothing happen. He was talking about the 3 brand new benches just few meters to the East of there businesses, just in front of the car concessioner. They were also talking about how the city’s employees are incompetent and slow to get the job done. Then, I wondered if Designers shouldn’t be hired by the cities to help to resolve those kinds of problems…