Kikwit, less than 300 miles east of Kinshasa, sits astride what was once a major transcontinental highway.

Meeker saw the use of a motor vehicle as publicizing the need for a transcontinental highway.

The region had once been part of the Pony Express trail and the nation's first transcontinental highway built in 1919.

During the latter half of the 20th century, several transcontinental interstate highways crossed the West bringing more trade and tourists from the East.

Nenno is on the old Yellowstone Trail, one of the first transcontinental highways.

Remnants of Highway 80, the first North American transcontinental highway, can be seen on either side.

Previously these were isolated farming communities, whose residents felt they were unaccustomed to the crime and other effects that a transcontinental highway can bring.

In 1913, the Lincoln Highway was established as an east-west transcontinental highway.

Indeed, it was only two hours from transcontinental highways traveled by intercity buses.

He went on to advocate the creation of a system of transcontinental highways with radial routes.