The Mid-Atlantic AAA today apologized for calling a local transit advocate “retarded” and comparing him to a Klansman. The apology was, well, pretty weak.

The spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic seems unhinged in his comments about David Alpert. Also, he’s not a very good driver.

It might have made us say, “huh?”, but Metro produced quite a hubbub with its recent presentation on future solutions to the system’s capacity needs – turns out, the transit agency has some pretty major upgrades in mind. David Alpert, curator of the local development blog Greater Greater Washington and a former Google Product Manager, produced a map to display all the changes that WMATA wants to make. We took the chance to grill David…