LOS ANGELES — When we talk about traffic in this car-dependent part of the world, we usually gripe about the amount of time it takes to get from Point A to Point B.
This is why the early days of the pandemic had a certain paradoxical charm.
In our terror, we holed up. But if we did have to drive somewhere, oh, what a pleasure it was to be on those suddenly empty roads. And it seemed obvious that with fewer vehicles on the road, there would surely be fewer collisions, fewer injuries and fewer deaths. Right?
