Quebec Route 143

Route 143 marker
Route 143
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length165.8 km[1] (103.0 mi)
Major junctions
South end US 5 in Derby Line, Vermont
Major intersections
North end R-132 in Saint-François-du-Lac
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
Highway system
← R-141→ R-147

Route 143 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the Centre-du-Québec and Estrie regions of Quebec. Until the mid-1970s when the province decided to renumber all highways other than autoroutes, it was known as Route/Highway 5. Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead, at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line–Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.

Since Autoroute 55 closely parallels Route 143 for most of its length, much commercial traffic chooses the former. However, it is a very busy route and takes much traffic from the border to the Sherbrooke local area. Route 143 closely follows the Saint-François River between Sherbrooke and Ulverton.

The road is often in notoriously poor condition, since its original cement was laid directly on a gravel road in the mid-1920s. It has been extensively resurfaced to the point the pavement is now more than three feet thick in places, but it heaves extensively at every spring thaw.

Municipalities along Route 143

Major intersections

RCM or ETMunicipalityKmJunctionNotes
Southern terminus of Route 143
MemphrémagogStanstead0.0
 US 5 south		5 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont
0.2
0.3		 R-247247 NORTH: to Ogden
247 SOUTH: to A-55
2.4
2.8		 A-5555 SOUTH: to I-91 in Derby Line, Vermont
55 NORTH: to Stanstead-East
Stanstead-East17.6 R-141141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff
141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest
Hatley22.0 R-208 (Overlap 0.6 km)208 WEST: to Ayer's Cliff
208 EAST: to Compton
CoaticookWaterville36.2Rue GosselinEAST: to Waterville
40.8 R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km)108 WEST: to Hatley Township
44.1 R-147147 SOUTH: to Compton
SherbrookeLennoxville46.8 R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km)108 EAST: to Eaton
Sherbrooke50.8 R-216216 WEST: to Magog
216 EAST: to Stoke
51.9 R-112112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke)
112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)
Bromptonville58.3 R-222 (East end)222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton
61.8Rue LavalWEST: to A-55
Le Val-Saint-FrançoisWindsor74.7 R-249249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton
249 NORTH: to Val-Joli
Richmond90.2 R-116 (Overlap 1.9 km)116 EAST: to Cleveland
91.3 R-243 (Overlap 1.1 km)243 NORTH: to Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey
92.1 R-116 (Overlap 1.9 km)116 WEST: to Durham-Sud
92.4 R-243 (Overlap 1.1 km)243 SOUTH: to Melbourne
DrummondSaint-Nicéphore120.6 R-139 (North end)139 SOUTH: to Wickham
Drummondville129.2
129.5		 R-122 (Overlap 0.3 km)122 EAST: to Saint-Charles-de-Drummond (Drummondville)
122 WEST: to Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (Drummondville)
131.9
132.2		 A-20 (TCH)20 EAST: to Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover
20 WEST: to Saint-Eugène
Saint-Bonaventure148.8 R-224 (East end)224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume
Nicolet-YamaskaSaint-François-du-Lac165.8 R-132132 WEST: to Saint-Gérard-Majella
132 EAST: to Pierreville
Northern terminus of Route 143

See also

Route 143 near Saint-Bonaventure, Quebec

References

  1. ^ Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 69-70, Les Publications du Québec, 2005
  • Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) (in French)
  • Route 143 on Google Maps


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