Lori Aratani is a member of The Post’s Transportation and Development team where she writes about the places people work and live in D.C. and Montgomery County and how they go about getting there. Prior to that, she managed social networking for the paper’s largest news desk. Before joining the staff of The Washington Post, she was a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, where she covered Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first gubenatorial campaign, the custody battle over Barry Bond’s history making home run ball, the 2004 presidential campaign and wildfires in the Western United States. Follow her on Twitter @loriara