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 Penarth Road looking towards Cardiff city centre | ||||
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| East end | Cardiff | |||
| Major intersections |  A4161 A4234 A470 A4119 A4055 | |||
| West end | Penarth | |||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||
| Constituent country | Wales | |||
| Primary destinations | Cardiff | |||
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TheA4160 is a road betweenCardiff andPenarth inWales. Its role as the main road between Cardiff city centre and Penarth has largely been superseded by theA4055 andA4232 roads viaCardiff Bay.
The route begins at traffic lights with theA4161Newport Road andWest Grove, in the city centre ofCardiff. It heads south along the dual-carriageway Fitzalan Place, before turning west along Adam Street, where the A4160 meets theA4234 Central Link. The road turns left ontoBute Street, to turn right atCallaghan Square, where it runs concurrent with theA470 for around 200 yards (180 m), before reaching a roundabout. Here we continue straight onto Tresillian Way, whilst the A470 turns right onto St Mary's Way. As Tresillian Way, we passCardiff Central Station, before becoming Penarth Road, continuing in a south-westerly direction. It crosses through the Penarth Road commercial district then crosses theRiver Taff, before entering a residential area, where we meet theA4119. We continue to follow Penarth Road, which becomes a local high street, before reachingGrangetown station overhead and an industrial estate. Then, the A4160 passes over theRiver Ely, before immediately afterwards passing under theA4232 Grangetown Link (with no junction), after which it turns to a south easterly direction. It meets theA4055 at a crossroads, where it becomes Cogan Hill briefly, to passCogan station and retail park, before changing its name to Windsor Road. Windsor Road passes two railway stations;Dingle Road station andPenarth station in the town centre of Penarth.
In 1935 the A4160 designation was proposed for an upgrade of the B489, which was to form a route fromSwindon toEast Anglia with the A5160 (which was proposed to be used instead of A505 for the A505/A601 route, to give the number continuity). As the tonnage wasn't enough on the B489 to elevate it to Class I, and never looked likely to, the proposal fell through and that road still exists.
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| Proposed transport network |  South Wales Metro
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