I-55 express bus planned

Pace is forging ahead with plans to start a rapid bus transit program on the Stevenson Expressway. Expected to begin in 2009, Pace would likely start the service in Will County and offer stops at Plainfield and Joliet, agency officials said at a Wednesday meeting. The bus would travel on I-55 to downtown Chicago. The new service would be funded through federal congestion-relief dollars. Details of fares and schedules are still being worked out. Also in the works is a rapid bus transit service on Golf Road between Evanston and Elgin.