Kettering plans to install concrete pads between the curb and bench areas of all Montgomery County Regional Transit Authority bus stops in the city by this fall.

There are approximately 170 RTA stops in Kettering.

“Each pad will cost $400 to construct. The budgeted amount for the overall project is $95,000, but the actual cost should be less,” city engineer Steven Bergstresser said.

The city will pay 20 percent of the cost. The rest, up to a total of $76,000, will be funded by a federal New Freedom grant provided by the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission.

The project will improve access to RTA service for disabled riders who live near fixed bus routes.

“It’s a low-cost, highly effective way to make boarding RTA’s regular buses easier for those residents. It could be a way to reduce RTA’s Project Mobility expenses,” Bergstresser said.

“The city of Centerville did a similar project several years ago that we liked a lot. We approached RTA in 2011 about doing this citywide.”

City council has also approved paying two-thirds of a $900,000 project to install new street lighting, wider sidewalks, stone walls, decorative pavers and pedestrian-level lighting near Town and Country Shopping Center on East Stroop Road from Southmoor Circle NE to Shroyer Road.

A federal Transportation Enhancement grant through MVCC will pay $300,000 of the cost.

Bergstresser said the work will be similar to a project done in 2011 on West Stroop from Far Hills to Southmoor Circle NW.