Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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5 Ways the Next U.S. Secretary of Transportation Will Be Forced to Follow Ray LaHood's Lead
The head of the DOT announced today that he's stepping down. He leaves behind an agency in dramatic transition.
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It's Not Easy Being a Transit Advocate in Atlanta
How do you improve congestion when there's zero political will to raise money to fix it?
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Charts
The Wildly Different Age Demographics of U.S. Cities
And other lessons learned from a vast new data tool from the Urban Institute.
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Finding Beauty in the Hypnotic Sound of Police Scanners
A window into the steady rhythm of first responders in a major city.
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What's Behind the Rise of Diabetes in Young Children in Philadelphia?
New research shows a startling prevalence of the disease among children younger than 5.
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Maps
The Best Maps We've Seen of Sandy's Transit Outage in New York
How transit access changes the perception of distance and accessibility of resources in a city.
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Why Talking Cars Will Be Good for Buses
Technology is poised to help us better share the roadway.
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Charts
A Striking Pattern to D.C.'s Metrorail Ridership on Inauguration Day
This is what it looks like when hundreds of thousands of people stand still at the exact same time.
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The Big Fix
Could These Crazy Intersections Make Us Safer?
Dispatches from the imagination of transportation engineers.
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Photos
How to 'Rightsize' a Street
Case studies from cities that have done it well.
