Brewers apologize for traffic ahead of Ed Sheeran concert

The Milwaukee Brewers have apologized for terrible traffic to Miller Park Wednesday night ahead of Ed Sheeran’s sold-out concert for about 40,000 fans.

“We are aware that there was significant congestion on several major routes as people traveled to Miller Park last night, and the process of moving cars into the lots was slower than anticipated,” Tyler Barnes, vice president of communications for the Brewers, told the Journal Sentinel via email Thursday.

“Our goal is to always provide the best fan experience possible and for many fans last night, we did not deliver,” Barnes said in his statement. “There are several factors related to hosting a concert that are different than a baseball game that created challenges. Regardless, we need to do better and we apologize for the inconvenience.”

Sheeran played an hour and fortyfive minutes, by the way.

And people, with nowhere to go and little to do, voiced their frustrations on Twitter.

“Ed Sheeran single-handedly destroyed Milwaukee’s traffic,” Thi Cao tweeted, using the hashtags “#gridlocked” and “#wearenotready.”

“Ed Sheeran is nowhere near good enough to be causing 90-minute traffic delays,” Steven JD Schinkal tweeted.

“The traffic for the Ed Sheeran concert might be craziest I’ve ever seen in Milwaukee,” Cole Stevenson said.

And a few people tweeted sarcastic thanks to Sheeran for significantly delaying their commute home.

The congestion was so bad the Milwaukee VA Medical Center revealed on Twitter Thursday afternoon that its police department let about 500 concertgoers park in its lot.