Why do countries with low vehicle ownership rates still have bad traffic?

Question

Colombia has 111 cars per 1000 people and Bogotá has some of the worst traffic in the world and traffic is terrible in a lot of the country’s cities. But the United States has 806 vehicles per 1000 people, and yeah there’s traffic, but it isn’t eight times worse than Colombia. Where does traffic come from in low vehicle ownership countries?

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Answer 1

Mostly because of urbanization and poorly constructed roads/infrastructure. Here in Vietnam economy cars cost 10-30% more and luxury cars cost 100-300% more than in the US, so the car ownership rate is around 0.5% if I remember it right. Yet traffic is horrible in big cities, and mildly horrible in other regions