MILWAUKEE — No one knows the roads around American Family Field quite like Joe Janz, a shuttle bus driver for Magoo’s on the Mound.
“Round-trip is nine minutes. With traffic like this, it’s always perfect, you know,” said Janz.
He grew up in this neighborhood.
“On the other side of the cemetery,” he says. “And people used to walk,”
Janz has been shuttling fans to and from Brewers games for the past 20 years. He said on opening day, Bluemound Road is filled with excitement and vibrant energy.
“It’s nice going down that hill, smelling the brats and the grills, and opening day is different from all the rest of the games,” said Janz. “It should be a national holiday. It’s one of the top days of the year.”
But as a driver, he has also seen traffic slow down that excitement heading into …