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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In and with with Cake Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Good news guys, the new South lawst government and I

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Speaker 1: think this makes sense. I just didn't realize the amount.

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Speaker 1: So obviously you've got your OPAL card and we're familiar

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Speaker 1: with that, and you get on and off your train

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Speaker 1: and there you go. Guys, I'm on the light rail.

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Speaker 1: See I'm off to the show. The government's proposing to

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Speaker 1: you seventy million dollars from unused OPAL funds, So if

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Speaker 1: that makes sense to you, fits The idea is when

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Speaker 1: you buy an OPAL card, let's say, at the train station,

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Speaker 1: and you put ten dollars onto your OPAL card that

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Speaker 1: sits in an account with the government, and then it's

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Speaker 1: linked to your card. So every time you go to

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Speaker 1: the train station and go through the turnstile, then a

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Speaker 1: small amount is taken off.

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Speaker 2: Your OPAL cards like your tolls, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like your tolls, except it sits the money

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Speaker 1: sits with the government instead of on your credit cards.

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Speaker 1: So that would be the slight difference. But the thing is, like,

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Speaker 1: I've got two OPAL cards at home and they probably

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Speaker 1: have I don't know, seven dollars on them. The average

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Speaker 1: OPENOK card has around four dollars on it and it's

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Speaker 1: not being used.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of the open cards because you tap

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Speaker 2: on with your credit card, now, well you cash your

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Speaker 2: OPAL card.

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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people, they suggest, use Opal cards

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Speaker 1: too when they're traveling. Fits or elderly people use their

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Speaker 1: open card as well. The thing is there's so many

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Speaker 1: open cards with just four dollars in it that the

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Speaker 1: New South Wales government want to take seventy million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars of our money.

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Speaker 1: Well it is but to put in for to put

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Speaker 1: into infrastructure for the train stations.

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Speaker 2: Now wait up, I'll take my four bucks back if

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Speaker 2: that's all right?

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Speaker 1: Would anybody bother? Well if I said to you, all right,

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Speaker 1: you have four dollars in the tank their mode Now

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Speaker 1: I can send you a I don't know, I can

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Speaker 1: reimburse it to your credit card the four dollars. Or hey,

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Speaker 1: look we're putting in bike lockers, we're putting in new

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Speaker 1: vending machines with all sorts of gear going into the place.

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Speaker 1: You of the new tiles at the train station, mate,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be top class. Or do you want

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Speaker 1: your four dollars?

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Speaker 2: Well, when you sell it like that, I mean, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to upgrade the toilets or something. It's circular

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Speaker 2: key or I can understand that to make your experience

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Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable. Yeah, but yeah, when you

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Speaker 2: think to yourself, four bucks, that's not much.

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Speaker 1: But then when you add.

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Speaker 2: It up to seventy million, that's when you're like, hang on,

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Speaker 2: it's taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: That I know what you mean. It feels a little

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Speaker 1: bit funny, but that's I had no idea how much

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Speaker 1: money would have been sitting in car. Like the cards

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Speaker 1: that I've got at home, I'll probably never use them

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Speaker 1: again because you can use your credit card now, that's

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Speaker 1: the other thing. So that money will just I mean,

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Speaker 1: they could possibly send an email or a note saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: would you like to donate to the upgrade the Duney

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Speaker 1: fund or we give you four dollars back, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think people would still bother even if they got

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Speaker 1: the email. Yeah, but it just feels a little bit funny.

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Speaker 1: And don't know, it does to know that money is

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Speaker 1: sitting there for the government to use.

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Speaker 2: And that's how they and wrote that song after the

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Speaker 2: able cards.

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Speaker 1: It was a little bit funny, did he really? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had no idea what was about the ople system?

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Speaker 1: I mean you could do that, or you could find

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Speaker 1: the person that won the one hundred million in Bondar

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Speaker 1: Junction and just get them to update the Dunny. Its

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