Maylin Tu

Maylin Tu is a freelance reporter based in Los Angeles writing about transportation and public infrastructure (especially bus shelters and bathrooms), with bylines in the Guardian, KCET, Next City, AfroLA, LAist, LA Public Press and JoySauce.

Series of messages over months reading "Hi, Can you please provide an update? Thanks!" in the NextRequest platform.

sidewalks

How hard is it to get public records from the LA Bureau of Engineering? Pretty freaking hard

LA is spending millions on its sidewalk repair program — the total for the 2024-25 fiscal year was about $44 million — and seeing scant results.

Three people with backpacks walk down a paved trail toward a gate. Behind the gate are a large white mansion and green hills.

Get in losers, we're completing a street

On Sunday, a group of friends and I completed our first street, Curson Avenue. What is “Complete A Street”? Inspired by the annual Great LA Walk, my friends Kira and Ben had the idea to walk the entire length of a street from beginning to end: “Los Angeles has been