Quebec Route 143

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Route 143
Route information
Maintained by Transports Québec
Length: 165.8 km[1] (103.0 mi)
Major junctions
South end: US 5 in Derby Line, Vermont
  Route 247 in Stanstead
A-55 / Route 141 in
Stanstead-Est
Route 208 in Hatley
Route 108 / Route 147 in Lennoxville (Sherbrooke)
A-10 / Route 112 / Route 216 in Sherbrooke
Route 222 in Bromptonville (Sherbrooke)
Route 249 in Windsor
Route 116 / Route 243 in Richmond
Route 139 in Saint-Nicéphore (Drummondville)
A-20 / A-55 / Route 122 in Drummondville
Route 224 in Saint-Bonaventure
North end: Route 132 in Saint-François-du-Lac
Location
Counties: Memphrémagog / Coaticook / Sherbrooke / Le Val-Saint-François / Drummond / Nicolet-Yamaska
Highway system

Quebec provincial highways

← Route 141 Route 147 →

Route 143 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. 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. Nonetheless, it heaves extensively each spring thaw.

Municipalities along Route 143

Major intersections

RCM or ET Municipality Km Junction Notes
Southern terminus of Route 143
Memphrémagog Stanstead 0.0 US 5 5 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont
0.2
0.3		 Route 247 247 NORTH: to Ogden
247 SOUTH: to A-55
2.4
2.8		 A-55 55 SOUTH: to I-91 in Derby Line, Vermont
55 NORTH: to Stanstead-East
Stanstead-East 17.6 Route 141 141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff
141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest
Hatley 22.0 Route 208 (Overlap 0.6 km) 208 WEST: to Ayer's Cliff
208 EAST: to Compton
Coaticook Waterville 36.2 Rue Gosselin EAST: to Waterville
40.8 Route 108 (Overlap 6.0 km) 108 WEST: to Hatley Township
44.1 Route 147 147 SOUTH: to Compton
Sherbrooke Lennoxville 46.8 Route 108 (Overlap 6.0 km) 108 EAST: to Eaton
Sherbrooke 50.8 Route 216 216 WEST: to Magog
216 EAST: to Stoke
51.9 Route 112 112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke)
112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)
Bromptonville 58.3 Route 222 (East end) 222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton
61.8 Rue Laval WEST: to A-55
Le Val-Saint-François Windsor 74.7 Route 249 249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton
249 NORTH: to Val-Joli
Richmond 90.2 Route 116 (Overlap 1.9 km) 116 EAST: to Cleveland
91.3 Route 243 (Overlap 1.1 km) 243 NORTH: to Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey
92.1 Route 116 (Overlap 1.9 km) 116 WEST: to Durham-Sud
92.4 Route 243 (Overlap 1.1 km) 243 SOUTH: to Melbourne
Drummond Saint-Nicéphore 120.6 Route 139 (North end) 139 SOUTH: to Wickham
Drummondville 129.2
129.5		 Route 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 20 EAST: to Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover
20 WEST: to Saint-Eugène
Saint-Bonaventure 148.8 Route 224 (East end) 224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume
Nicolet-Yamaska Saint-François-du-Lac 165.8 Route 132 132 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

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