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 ==[[Quezon News]]==
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-'''‘Sierra Madre cross’ goes on pilgrimage'''
+'''Traffic choke points on Maharlika Highway eased—police'''
-*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/173147/%E2%80%98sierra-madre-cross%E2%80%99-goes-on-pilgrimage
+*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/173479/traffic-choke-points-on-maharlika-highway-eased%E2%80%94police
 *By: Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
-*''April 07, 2012''
+*''April 08, 2012''
-LUCENA CITY—To dramatize the government’s failure to stop the destruction of the Sierra Madre mountain ranges, environmentalists, religious and nongovernment organizations started on Good Friday a pilgrimage of a 7-foot cross across 10 Luzon provinces and Metro Manila.
+LUCENA CITY— Here is one good news for Manila-bound motorists from Bicol who will rush back to Manila via the Maharlika Highway after spending Holy Week in the province.
-Fr. Pete Montallana, chair of the Save Sierra Madre Network, said over the phone that through the pilgrimage of the Sierra Madre cross, they “want government officials and the public to see and feel that the continuous destruction of the mountain is no different from the crucifixion of Jesus  Christ.”
+Senior Superintendent Valerian de Leon, Quezon police chief, said the traffic choke points between Pagbilao and Atimonan towns have been eased with the return of two-way traffic in both north and south direction.
-The fragile mountain ranges are considered one of the last bastions of lush forests in the country.
+De Leon said the section of the Maharlika Highway, particularly between the village of Binahaan and Palsabangon in Pagbilao, is now passable to all types of vehicles.
-Montallana said the Sierra Madre cross was unveiled in Tuguegarao, Cagayan on Good Friday. After several days of vigil, the cross will travel to the Diocese of San Jose in Nueva Ecija as its next stop.
+“The traffic movement is now normal and light,” De Leon said over the phone after his inspection of traffic along the Maharlika Highway at noon Sunday.
-He said Ifugao natives fashioned the cross from ”mulawin” drift woods gathered from the Ingrid-Angelo parts of the vast mountain of Pantabangan, also in Nueva Ecija.
+Quoting reports from different police stations, De Leon said the movement of vehicles along the Quezon stretch of the Maharlika Highway toward Bicol and Manila was also normal and free from any obstructions.
-Montallana, a Franciscan priest from the Prelature of Infanta and staunch defender of the Sierra Madre, said the cross symbolized the devastation of the mountain from unabated illegal logging and mining activities.
+De Leon reiterated his advice to motorists to obey traffic laws and signs for safe travel.
-“It also symbolizes hope and our eventual victory as we face the challenge to save what is left of the Sierra Madre,” he said.
+The Quezon police chief said policemen, Army soldiers, barangay tanods (village watchmen), volunteer communications groups and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) emergency crew, would continue to man the long stretch of the highway to protect and assist motorists.
-After its stops in Cagayan and Nueva Ecija, the Sierra Madre cross would visit Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Bulacan, Quezon, Rizal and  Laguna provinces and Metro Manila. A Mass and special religious rite will be performed in every stopover.
+Authorities expect heavy volume of Manila-bound vehicles starting Monday.
-The priest said the pilgrimage would end in the Diocese of Antipolo on Sept. 26 to coincide with the commemoration of Typhoon “Ondoy” that hit Metro Manila and nearby provinces in 2009 and left behind hundreds of people killed and millions of pesos of properties destroyed.
+Late last month, pockets of road construction projects, mostly road-widening works, between Pagbilao and Atimonan towns often stuck hundreds of motorists for hours.
-Meanwhile, a tribal leader and vocal critic of continuous logging in the Sierra Madre, decried harassment from suspected illegal loggers.
+The DPWH was forced to suspend road construction projects along the highway during the Holy Week.
-Ramcy Astoveza, executive director of the Tribal Center for Development Foundation Inc. based in Infanta, said over the phone that illegal loggers  have been spreading rumors in Real-Infanta-General Nakar (Reina) towns that he was the one responsible for the recent series of seizures of hot logs and timber.
-“I’m now a sitting duck should the forest criminals retaliate,” said Astoveza.
-The tribal leader was referring to the seizure last month by Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) operatives in Quezon of at least P642,441 worth of hot logs and flitches along the shores of Mauban town, a known transshipment point of illegally cut forest products from the Sierra Madre.
-Astoveza said he had been taking measures to ensure his safety after unidentified illegal loggers kept on sending him threatening messages through phone calls and spreading malicious rumors in tribal communities.
-He assailed the DENR in Quezon for crowing on their “so-called accomplishments” every time they were able to intercept hot logs and timber that came from Sierra Madre.
-“It only shows their failure to protect the forest because illegal logging still continues,” Astoveza said.
-Montallana added that the seizures of unlawful forest products should not be “trumpeted” as an “accomplishment” by the DENR as these mirror the DENR’s inability and lack of political will of the country’s leadership to stop the “rape of the Sierra Madre.”
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