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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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.
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Videos
Public Transportation ... for Your Car?
Behold the train-ferry for car commuters, and one of the craziest transit ideas we've ever seen.
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Maps
A Map for All Possible Routes
How to get where you're going by foot, by car, by transit and bike, all on one map.
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Videos
Why 3D Modeling Will Play a Huge Role in Tackling Rapid Urbanization
We can now simulate the effects of earthquakes, traffic jams and population expansion. From every angle.
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Charts
The 'Best' Ways to Incite Road Rage
We're looking at you, erratic lane weavers.
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9 Questions About Gun Violence That We May Now Be Able to Answer
We're going to get a windfall of gun research thanks to Obama's new policy. Here's what we want to know.
