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how is public transportation mcdonaldized?
McDonaldization is a term given by a socialist named Ritzer. It comes from the chain of fast food restaurants McDonalds and its charactersticks. So when we go to McDonalds there are certain rules that everyone has to follow like where to order food from and where to collect your food from and where to sit and eat and after eating you can leave your trays in a dustbin placed in a corner. Everyone knows these rules and this makes the restaurant easy and chaos free. So in a similar way the public transport has been McDonaldized as there is are set rules and steps that you have to follow in order to travel by public transport. You enter and get your stuff checked then after that you collect the ticket or use your subway card to travel, there is a certain place to get your card recharged and a place where you can ask your queries,after all this the buses and trains follow a set route everyday so the whole system runs freely without any chaos and without anyone having to watch it consistently. Thats how the public transport has been McDonaldized.