Only question is how much.

In fact, this photo is part of a set by the MBTA showing re-painting at the station while the Red Line is shut down for track work.

Martin Connolly reports some savvy/sneaky inbound commuters at Stony Brook and Green Street take the outbound train to Forest Hills, then don't get off as the train becomes an inbound one, which reduces the odds that poor Forest Hill saps like him can get a seat.

Somewhere between Park and Harvard is an Alewife-bound train that simply couldn't take it anymore, to the consternation of riders on both it and other trains stuck because of it, not to mention the people who finally straggle to Alewife only to find that the parking garage is, of course, releasing them into the wild only very reluctantly.

The Metro reports MBTA inspectors will be swarming 12 key Green Line stops today and through the end of December for a "fare enforcement blitz." The T also plans to seek legislation to increase the fine for fare evasion from $15 to $100.

Two former officials of the union that represents MBTA inspectors were indicted today on charges they sucked more than $300,000 out of union coffers, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Brian Sheehey, secretary-treasurer of Local 600 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union for five years, is charged with embezzling $250,000. John Horan, local president for 10 years, stands accused of taking $78,000.

The DA's office says the skimming was uncovered last year after Sheehey lost an election to succeed the retiring Horan as president and the union's new leaders had the books audited.

An MBTA Transit Police officer assigned to patrol the Lynn parking garage due to multiple break-ins in recent days may have hit the jackpot yesterday morning: A woman he allegedly found attaching a stolen plate to one car, with evidence she had tried to break into several other cars nearby.

Alexis Downez, 32, was charged with five counts of attempted breaking and entering in the daytime, five count of malicious destruction of property, possession of burglarious tools, stealing a license plate and driving after suspension. Her arrest came after three days of car break-ins, thefts and vandalism at the garage, police say.

Melina wonders:

"Why is there a single slice of turkey on this escalator?" These are questions I ask myself on the Orange Line.