over the last 10 years there have been 150 people killed and 2900 injured on the stretch of highway between Salmon Arm and the Alberta border
 

it is estimated that over 365,000 tractor trailers will pass over the Roger's pass in 2001 heading points east and west
 

the outrageous fuel taxes, in April 2001 domestic unleaded regular gas in April at one point was 67.9 cents a liter of which 43% went to provincial and federal coffers as their tax share, the feds feed us the line that gas taxes are needed for road renewal. Out of 4.7 billion dollars collected in the year 2000 by the feds in fuel tax, merely 4% (191 million dollars) found it's way back to the provinces for roads and highways
 

in 1995 the Liberals imposed a 1.5 cent additional surtax on fuel to balance the federal budget, well the budget has been balanced and in healthy surplus for the last two years, yet the tax carries on
 

take the 365,000 trucks that travel this stretch in a year and trim a conservative estimate of 20 minutes off the 200 mile trip from Salmon Arm to the Alberta border the trucking industry will save 121,666 hours of man hours travel time each year! Assuming these trucks travel an average of 60 miles an hour that's an additional 7.3 million miles the industry can bank on
 

In a coroner's report in 1964 from the city of Golden, B.C. came forth the recommendation: "simply, lighting of the tunnels would reduce accidents."
 
Numerous highway studies throughout the late 80's and early 90's (Monenco report 1988-10-27, UMA Engineering Ltd 1994-02-14, Delcan Capacity Analysis Study 1991-07-31) alluded to vision problems within the tunnels with recommendations to light the tunnels. The very first tunnel to be lit finally became reality in the fall of 2000. Work is occurring in 2001 to have a second tunnel lit. The wheels of bureaucracy turn ever so slowly
 

in 1998-1999 the US government collected 25 billion dollars in gas tax revenues, 84% or 21 billion dollars went back into highways and roads