Eerily empty freeways: A symbol of how the coronavirus has hurt Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES - Evening traffic on the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles was so sparse last week that 24-year-old Jerrold Smith II took out his iPhone and recorded it for posterity.
"Just so no one thinks I'm crazy, it's 6 o'clock," Smith said, wonder in his voice, as he drove south toward the 10 Freeway. Normally one of America's worst bottlenecks, the interchange had barely a dozen cars nearby.
As coronavirus fears have swept Southern California, and reported cases of COVID-19 have surged in Los Angeles County, commuters still going
