The boarding process on Boston subway platforms can be so unruly that transit officials have tried taping lines on the platforms to keep new passengers from blocking departing riders.
Now the T might borrow a much higher-tech idea from the other side of the world: building a wall to separate riders from arriving trains.
The technology is common on subway systems in Asia and increasingly in Europe, but it has not been deployed on a major US transit system.
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