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Maylin Tu

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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. She graduated with a BA in English from William Jewell College in Missouri.

Maylin Tu’s Journalist Portfolio

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LAUSD is sitting on millions in state funding for greening schools. Why are projects stalled for ...

LAUSD is sitting on millions in state funding for greening schools. Why are projects stalled for ...

LAUSD's commitment to greening at least 30% of all its schools by 2035 has become a battle over power and res…

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Decades ago, homeowners gated public streets in the name of curbing crime. Now, a group is trying...

Decades ago, homeowners gated public streets in the name of curbing crime. Now, a group is trying...

To some neighbors, the gates are an ugly symbol of exclusion and segregation.

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L.A. neglected its sidewalks for years. Could robots be the key to fixing them?

L.A. neglected its sidewalks for years. Could robots be the key to fixing them?

Robot delivery companies say that they can help cities fix curbs and sidewalks. That's not really happening.

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Exclusive: Skid Row's Life-Saving Warming Stations Delayed for Months

Exclusive: Skid Row's Life-Saving Warming Stations Delayed for Months

As the city of Los Angeles has experienced record-breaking rain this winter, frequent cold temperatures, and …

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Emails show Traci Park removed toilets, showers, and handwashing stations across district

Emails show Traci Park removed toilets, showers, and handwashing stations across district

Since taking office, LA City Councilmember Traci Park has removed hygiene programs — including toilets, handw…

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Why does LA only have 14 permanent public bathrooms? A brief history of public toilets in LA

Why does LA only have 14 permanent public bathrooms? A brief history of public toilets in LA

The city of LA, notoriously, only has 14 permanent public bathrooms on the sidewalk for almost 4 million peop…

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How an army of digital sleuths are using AI to fix America’s crumbling sidewalks

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By Maylin Tu
| Fast Company Verified
I’m on a tree-lined street in Lincoln Park, a city in Metro Detroit, studying a curb ramp—the part of the sidewalk that slopes down to meet the street at an intersection so that someone using a wheelchair can safely cross. I mark the ramp “good” and move on. Psych! I’m not in Lincoln Park. I’m labeling and rating sidewalks from the comfort of my own couch in Los Angeles using Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing platform dedicated to improving sidewalk accessibility.
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Could delivery robots help pay for better city sidewalks?

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By Maylin Tu
| Common Ground
This story was originally published on this site. Camron Bridgford was eating dinner outside at a Miami restaurant when she saw a strange sight: two sidewalk delivery robots in a standoff, each one blocked by the other. “One finally had to back out and let the other one through,” says Bridgford, senior principal at Cityfi, who worked on a 2021 landmark sidewalk delivery robot pilot program in four cities.
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Could Partnering With Nonprofits Be the Path To Finally Repair LA’s Broken Sidewalks?

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By Maylin Tu
| Next City Verified
This story was produced with support from the Solutions Journalism Network’s How Government Responds Innovation Fund. Anna Apostolos knows sidewalks. Since 2000, she’s orchestrated the repair of tens of thousands of square feet of sidewalk for hundreds of Angelenos. Her official title is “capital projects specialist” for the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, which partners with local council districts to repair sidewalks using discretionary funding.
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