Original sentence: That said, the quality of the road surface is such that often you would not be safe travelling any faster as the majority of the road is significantly distressed.The Romanian Section of the road is particularly poor, and standard driving time from Oradea to Pitesti is around 13 hours
Edited sentence: 1) Oradea - Deva: the road is in poor condition, no work begun to this moment to improve this portion, however a project for modernizing this road has been approved in august 2008 (184 km will be modernized in 48 months for 132 million euro, according to a romanian web-site 1.2) Deva - Petrosani: the road has been significantly widened in the last three years, but asphalt work is still in progress, so expect traffic lights and some bumps; portions with excellent asphalt alternate with portions with poor asphalt.3) Petrosani - Targu Jiu: this section is especially difficult because it goes through a narrow mountain valley, and because of the current work on the road.4) Targu Jiu - Craiova: the section Targu Jiu - Filiasi is a bit more difficult.5) Craiova - Calafat: this section will be modernized in the spring of 2010 2.Since 2007 (Romanian adhesion to the EU), work has begun to improve the quality of this road.That said, the quality of the road surface is such that often you would not be safe travelling any faster as the majority of the road is significantly distressed, and will be so at least for the following 2-3 years.The Romanian Section of the road is particularly poor.The section Filiasi - Craiova is much better.You should expect one carriageway, and very difficult overtaking