 In the 1950s under the regime of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, road transport between the airport and the capital was improved by the inauguration of the Caracas-La Guaira highway.However, the La Guaira and Caracas Railway, dating from the nineteenth century, was closed.In May 2007 a maglev train was proposed to link Caracas to La Guaira and Simón Bolívar International Airport.