This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, November 29th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

For the sake of American workers, our transportation system needs some fixing.

It's taking longer for Americans to get to work and from mandates on which ships may drop off and pick up cargo and where they may do so.

To the mandates that add costs at every single stage of a commute, there are options for reform everywhere.

Cato's Colin Grabo is author of the Transportation chapter in Cato's Empowering the

New American Worker Book. We spoke this month.

When you're talking about pro-worker policies we think

about benefits, wages, health care, the ability of people to change jobs and you know tied in with all of that ought to be the

ability to get to and from a job or the is for the bulk of American workers when it comes to transportation?

Well, when it comes to transportation, most American workers, I think unsurprisingly, commute to work by car. I think 85% of those that actually go physically go to their jobs, use a car or automobile to get to their place of employment.

And it's taking them longer. to their place of employment.

And it's taking them longer.

I think according to the data that Americans actually

takes them a couple minutes longer

than your average European, for example,

to get to work.

And I think that a lot of government policy helps explain why

your commute is as arduous as is and and many instances getting worse

transportation policy and many instances getting worse. Transportation policy, you know, part of this is wrapped up in housing in terms of like the

distances people have to live from their work, but if we take that as a given,

transportation policy is set at the federal, state, and the local level.

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