Va. state Senator David Marsden, D-Burke, and other community leaders tagged along for the grueling commutes of some low-income residents in the Washington region Tuesday morning.

Marsden shadowed single mother Makeiah Butler, an Alexandria resident, as she walked and took two bus rides, one of them 40 minutes long, to her doctor’s appointment and workplace.

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