| Mount Road | |
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| Maintained by | Highways and Minor Ports Department Corporation of Chennai National Highways Authority of India |
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| Length | 8 mi (13 km) |
| Coordinates | 13°03′52″N 80°15′57″E / 13.064369°N 80.265808°E |
| South end | GST Road / Inner Ring Road, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Kathipara Junction at St.Thomas Mount, Chennai |
| Major junctions | Pallavan Salai West Cooum River Road/Swami Sivananda Salai Wallaja Road/Blackers Road General Patters Road Binny Road/Spencers Plaza Whites Road/Greams Road Peters road Lloyds Road Nungambakkam High Road/Cathedral Road (Anna Flyover) Vijaya Raghava Road Sir Thyagaraya Road, T. Nagar/Eldams Road Cenotaph Road Venkatanarayana Road/Chamiers Road South Usman Road, T. Nagar Taluk Office Road, Velachery Main Road(Little Mount) Sardhar Patel Road Guindy Race Course Road Maduvankarai Bridge Road |
| North end | Flag Staff Road, Island Grounds, Chennai |
Anna Salai (Tamil: [aɳɳaː saːlaɪ]), formerly known as St. Thomas Mount Road or simply Mount Road,[1] is an arterial road in Chennai, India. It starts at the Cooum Creek, south of Fort St George, leading in a south-westerly direction towards St. Thomas Mount, and ends at the Kathipara Junction in Guindy.[2] Beyond the Kathipara Junction, a branch road arises traversing westwards to Poonamallee to form the Mount-Poonamallee Road while the main branch continuing southwards to Chennai Airport, Tambaram and beyond to form Grand Southern Trunk Road (GST Road or NH45). Anna Salai, which is more than 400 years old, is acknowledged as the most important road in Chennai city. The head offices of many commercial enterprises and public buildings are located along Anna Salai. It is the second longest road in Chennai, after EVR Periyar Salai.
Several flyover projects were under consideration on the road, many of which have been shelved owing to the construction of the Chennai Metro project, which runs along the median of the road.[3] Anna Salai Head Post office, one of the most important post offices in the city, is located on this road. It was established in 1854 as Mount Road SO as a non-gazetted delivery office. With the growth of commerce and urbanization, this SO was upgraded to gazetted in 1955. Nomenclature of this Head Post office was changed from Mount Road Head Post office to Anna Road Head Post office on 15 September 1974.
- ^ "Mount Road's takeover tycoons". The Times of India. Chennai. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- ^ "Time travel on Anna Salai". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. 23 October 2018. pp. 4 (MetroPlus).
- ^ "Anna Salai flyovers proposal shelved". Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2011.