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Alexandria is situated in the middle of the Wallachian Plain, on the banks of the Vedea River.It is located in the central part of Teleorman County, at a distance of 62 km (39 mi) from Giurgiu and 86 km (53 mi) from Bucharest.
Videle is located 49 km (30 mi) northeast of the county seat, Alexandria and 66 km (41 mi) west of Bucharest.It is crossed by county roads DJ503 and DJ601.. The town is of some importance as a railway junction, for the railway track heading south to Giurgiu and Bulgaria leaves the main Wallachian East-West-railway from Bucharest to Craiova.
It is located in the central-west part of Teleorman County, at a distance of 32 km (20 mi) from the county seat, Alexandria. It neighbors the following communes: Măldăeni to the west, Peretu and Troianul to the south, Vedea and Drăgănești de Vede to the east, and Scrioaștea to the north.
Expressways only have a narrow 1.5 m gravel roadside on the right side, added to the 0.5 m asphalted road edges, and may not have acceleration and deceleration lanes in mountainous areas. [6] The maximum allowed speed limit is 130 km/h (81 mph) (80 km/h (50 mph) during poor conditions), while expressways have a maximum speed limit of 120 km/h ...
Police halting a convoy of lorries outside of Giurgiu. DN5 (Romanian: Drumul Național 5) is an important national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the southern country border with Bulgaria by the Giurgiu Russe Friendship Bridge. [1] DN5 has been designated as a priority express road, being upgraded between 2006 and 2009. [2]
Moreover, a new expressway (termed DN5D) that would bypass the city of Giurgiu in the east (about 6 km long) opened in 2021, but this serves only as a connection to the existing Giurgiu border checkpoint and the Friendship Bridge over the Danube. [4] [5] [6] Regardless, building the A5 motorway is only a long-term plan for the Romanian government.
Motorways are identified by A followed by a number. As of April 2024, Romania has 1,098 km of motorway in use, with another 720 km under construction. [citation needed] In recent years, a master plan for the national motorway network has been developed and many works have begun around the country, [3] which will result in significant changes by 2015, [4] and eventually by 2022.
Teleorman County (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈtele.orman]) is a county of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria. The name Teleorman is of Cumanic ( Turkic ) origin.