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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The USA has spent a mind blowingly large amount of money building out the best car based transportation network on the planet. As of 2020, there was around 4.17 million miles of highway in the USA. And that’s just the highways. That’s not counting city roads.
Columbia hasn’t. Fewer cars per person sure, but packed onto far less infrastructure that hasn’t been maintained as well.
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