Free Train Ride: Metrolink

Saturday the Metrolink trains in the southeren CA area www.octa.net were celebrating their 11th anniversary, so they had announced free train rides between Fullerton and San Juan Capistrano. The train frequncy was every 40 min but after 10.30 a.m the next train was around 1.10p.m. We are planned to take the train ride, when we reached fullerton, the crowd was so much that they had to deboard passengers. But the most disappointing part is they didnot allow any standing passengers, anyone who stood was deboard, since they said it was not safe. They had to do this in every other station, the crowd which turned up in each station were disappointed and most of them were kids who came to enjoy the day out.I have never seen such fussiness over safety, I have used the BART in san francisco and Subway in Newyork city, but all those trains are packed during the peak hours and people are standing all the time. I was imagining, what would happen in Chennai, where most of the people only travel in the footboard???