According to a report in Yediot, Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz has given instructions to advance plans to extend the high speed train route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to include a stop by the Old City of Jerusalem near the Kotel. The plan will include an underground station in the area that will be named "Tachanat HaKotel".

Katz explained that by building this route extension the load will be significantly lightened form the main station by Binyanei Hauma, and it will allow tourists, students, and all citizens in general to easily arrive at and visit the Kotel from the center of the country..

This is awesome. Not only will it make it easier to get through Jerusalem to the Kotel area, and not only will it perhaps encourage more people to go - people who don't want to go to Jerusalem thinking it is either unsafe or a difficult trip due to traffic and the amount of time it takes - to the Old City and the Kotel area, but one day, hopefully in the near future, it will also perhaps be used to bring the masses of "olei regel" to the Beis Hamikdash...