The Pilgrimage road reopens: ten years after the tragedy of Vincenzo Bono, the isolation ends.

The redevelopment of the so-called Pilgrimage Road is finally completed.

The artery, essential both for the connection between the Isabella neighborhood and State Road 115 and for its historical and religious value, is passable again after ten years since the violent storm of 2016, which cost the life of Vincenzo Bono, swept away by the water and never found again.

Ten years, a time that alone tells the slowness with which the city manages to restore essential infrastructures.

Mayor Fabio Termine claims the intervention of 300 thousand euros as an important result, emphasizing that he welcomed the proposal from some opposition councilors.

“When the proposals are useful to the city – he says - we do not look at the political origin.”

But the institutional satisfaction does not erase the evidence: to return a road to normality took a decade, amidst shifting responsibilities, administrative delays, and construction sites started and suspended.

The intervention involved the repaving of the road, the drainage of water with new drains, the construction of ditches, and the installation of public lighting.

Necessary works, certainly, but they come after years of discomfort for residents and motorists, forced to live with a compromised road system and a symbolic wound that has never truly healed.

Termine speaks of “delays of the past” and claims to have intervened in three and a half years on numerous city arteries.

But there are controversies.

The former councilor for Public Works Valeria Gulotta, removed from the council months ago, accuses the administration of taking credit for work not its own: “The road was completed in November – she says - the administration only communicates this now, without acknowledging the work of those who followed the construction site step by step.”

In short, on one hand, a project finally returned to the city, on the other, yet another demonstration of how long and winding the timing of the administrative machine can be, in this case when the collective memory still carries the weight of a tragedy never forgotten.