Jerusalem - High Speed Rail???

This is RIGHT outside the Old City walls.  I was pleasently surprised to see that a high speed train in being built in the city.  Jerusalem's streets are VERY narrow and driving can be just painful. Most of the streets follow old animal paths.  I found a humorous post on a blog called Jerusalemite.net in the environment category.

 " ... there is another train slowly but unsurely making its way to the Holy City: the long-awaited high-speed Israel Railways line from Tel Aviv. The line, which will replace the hideously slow and outdated current inter-city train, has been beset by constant delays, from the simply bureaucratic to the bizarrely "only-in-Israel" (how many construction projects in other countries get delayed because workers keep uncovering ancient Jewish graves?)"