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.
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
Length | 165.8 km[1] (103.0 mi) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | ![]() | |||
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North end | ![]() | |||
Standort | ||||
Land | Kanada | |||
Province | Quebec | |||
Highway system | ||||
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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
edit- Stanstead
- Stanstead-Est
- Hatley
- Waterville
- Sherbrooke - (Lennoxville / Sherbrooke / Bromptonville)
- Val-Joli
- Windsor
- Cleveland
- Richmond
- Ulverton
- L'Avenir
- Drummondville - (Saint-Nicéphore / Drummondville / Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham)
- Saint-Bonaventure
- Saint-Pie-de-Guire
- Saint-François-du-Lac
Major intersections
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RCM or ET | Municipality | Km | Junction | Notes |
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Southern terminus of Route 143
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Memphrémagog | Stanstead | 0.0 | US 5 south |
5 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont |
0.2 0.3 |
R-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 | R-141 | 141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff 141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest | |
Hatley | 22.0 | R-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 | R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km) | 108 WEST: to Hatley Township | ||
44.1 | R-147 | 147 SOUTH: to Compton | ||
Sherbrooke | Lennoxville | 46.8 | R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km) | 108 EAST: to Eaton |
Sherbrooke | 50.8 | R-216 | 216 WEST: to Magog 216 EAST: to Stoke | |
51.9 | R-112 | 112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke) 112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke) | ||
Bromptonville | 58.3 | R-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 | R-249 | 249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton 249 NORTH: to Val-Joli |
Richmond | 90.2 | 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 | ||
Drummond | Saint-Nicéphore | 120.6 | R-139 (North end) | 139 SOUTH: to Wickham |
Drummondville | 129.2 129.5 |
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-Bonaventure | 148.8 | R-224 (East end) | 224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume | |
Nicolet-Yamaska | Saint-François-du-Lac | 165.8 | R-132 | 132 WEST: to Saint-Gérard-Majella 132 EAST: to Pierreville |
Northern terminus of Route 143
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 69-70, Les Publications du Québec, 2005
External links
edit- Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) (in French)
- Route 143 on Google Maps