Police halting a convoy of lorries outside of Giurgiu

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with the southern country border with

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by the Giurgiu Russe Friendship Bridge. DN5 has been designated as a priority express road, being upgraded between 2006 and 2009. Between

and

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, for the most part, it is a non-grade separated dual carriageway with no emergency lane, with entrances and exits from adjacent roads using

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. Some segments (such as the

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bypass) are constructed to full motorway standard (dual carriageway, full grade-separation, wide median separation). It is one of the most transited roads in southern

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, serving as the main connection between Romania's capital, Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe.

Eastern Giurgiu bypass

Construction works on the DN5D ( ro, Drumul Național 5D), the Eastern Giurgiu bypass, began in 2020. It was built to expressway-like standards and opened to traffic on 20 December 2021.S-a deschis circulația rutieră pe prima "autostradă nemțească" din România. Cum arată noul drum către podul Giurgiu-Ruse
/ref> In the technical view, the contract for the 5,72 km of new road was signed with the

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company

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for 106 million lei (excluding VAT) in 2019, the duration of the contract being 108 months. Being sometimes also nicknamed the ''Autostrada nemțească'' (German motorway) due to it being made of concrete, with equipment brought from Germany, DN5D takes off transit and freight traffic to and from Bulgaria from the city of Giurgiu. In the meantime, the Bulgarian side came with a rendering of a new unified road & rail

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bridge in the area of the existing Friendship Bridge, in which the road is a motorway with 2x2 lanes (likely to be the

Veliko Tarnovo–Ruse motorway The Veliko Tarnovo–Ruse motorway (, ) is a planned motorway in Northern Bulgaria, that will link Veliko Tarnovo and Ruse, at the Danube border crossing to Romania. Planned to be designated A7, it will span for approximately , superseding the exi ...

).Pod nou peste Dunăre: Cum ar putea arăta a doua legătură cu bulgarii între Giurgiu și Ruse VIDEO
/ref> The national road will be doubled in the Romanian side by the A5 motorway; however this is only a long-term plan.

References

Roads in Romania European route E85 {{Romania-road-stub