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Quebec Route 143

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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 R-247 in Stanstead
A-55 / R-141 in
Stanstead-Est
R-208 in Hatley
R-108 / R-147 in Lennoxville (Sherbrooke)
A-10 / R-112 / R-216 in Sherbrooke
R-222 in Bromptonville (Sherbrooke)
R-249 in Windsor
R-116 / R-243 in Richmond
R-139 in Saint-Nicéphore (Drummondville)
A-20 (TCH) / A-55 / R-122 in Drummondville
R-224 in Saint-Bonaventure
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

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Major intersections

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RCM or ET Municipality Km Junction Notes
Southern terminus of Route 143
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

See also

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Route 143 near Saint-Bonaventure, Quebec

References

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  1. ^ Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 69-70, Les Publications du Québec, 2005
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