And yelling at them won't make them suddenly need your help.

If the MBTA is just going to dump sand at the Newton Highlands T stop, why shouldn't some kid build a sand castle with it?

A construction inspector and an engineer who each worked for the MBTA for more than 20 years faced felony charges yesterday, accused of collecting pay for what the attorney general's office described as no-show jobs. A third man, also an inspector, is expected to appear today in Suffolk Superior Court.

3 accused of taking T pay for no work
Anonymous tip sparked probe of longtime workers
By Andrew Ryan and John R. Ellement

After they bust the payroll thieves, maybe they can prosecute the deadbeats scamming the Boston Fireman's retirement system and disability insurance.

With much fanfare, the T opened a large room at the Alewife T stop where bicyclists could store their bikes securely - only people with a special CharlieCard could get in.

At the time, Dan Dunn doubted the cage would remain secure for long. He reports he's already found the door swinging open three times and that, when he reported it to a T employee yesterday morning:

... He replied that he'd called the problem in, but no one would fix anything. He went on a long rant about management, two years without an employment contract, bad faith negotiating, $300,000 bike racks, four-foot door hinges on five-foot doors, and repeatedly told me that I shouldn't hold my breath for a fix. At 7:30 tonight I got back to Alewife. I can't say I was surpised to see the door to the bike cage hanging open. ...

Train Stopping rounds up all the coverage on yesterday's announcement that the state will pay $100 million to CSX to buy the rail line between Worcester and Boston - which includes new train runs starting later this month.

The Herald reports the MBTA has suspended eight bus drivers and one subway driver for talking on their cell phones while working since that May 28 fatal crash on the Green Line in Newton.

Michaela reports that on a Blue Line ride from Maverick to Government Center yesterday afternoon, not only did the conductor not pick up the phone, he or she left the PA on so all the passengers could enjoy the ringing, too:

What's the deal, MBTA? Why didn't anyone pick up a phone that was ringing in the conductor's cab? So annoying. I'm actually pretty intrigued no matter how annoying it was. Who was on the other line? Who called the train?

MBTA Police arrested an Irish national on charges he rubbed up against a woman at a fare machine at the Symphony T stop around 10:30 last night - after making lewd comments to her and a companion.

Innocent, etc.

Earlier:
Romanian doctor allegedly groped teen on the Green Line.

OK, it was just some T employee not realizing the T allows photos these days, but he used the PA at Chinatown station to tell Carolyn to knock it off.

Alecia had the story a week ago on how T workers were planning a work slowdown; now the Globe follows up with its own story. The Globe does provide the whys of the story.