Conductor puts passengers in DANGER ON THE 5:50

UPDATE: I spoke to soon about the one conductor opening up the cars early, he is back and still putting the passengers in harms way.
I've noticed that every day on the platform where the 5:50pm train leaves from, hundreds of people crowd in front of the doors, just waiting and waiting, while it gets more and more crowed as it gets to be 5 to 10 minutes before the train leaves, then finally the doors open, then hundreds of passengers start rushing, pushing and cutting in front of each other while hurrying to get a good seat. That's not even the dangerous part, the danger comes from all those people being on the platform where the amount of passengers is more then the platform should hold. people are so crowded that they have to step down onto the tracks to get around people that are standing and waiting for the conductor to get done with his slow moving ,check out each car routine. Only one time did I see another train pull into the other side tracks while it was this crowed and I was so scared watching as people were so close to the side of this incoming train, I was sure someone was going to be run over.
A solution already presented itself when the regular conductors were on vacation. The filling in young conductors opened the 5:50 doors right when the train arrived at around 4:35 where there were hardly any people waiting and these conductors checked the cars while these few people were sitting in their seats. Then the regular conductors came back after a week and the dangerous routine started right back up.
Hopefully nobody will get run over, but if someone does, don't say I didn't warn you.

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