Just a few feet from where a white ghost bike marks the spot where Sarah Debbink Langenkamp was killed while riding her bike on River Road three years ago, new bike lanes are being installed.

In 2022, Langenkamp, a diplomat and mother of two, was coming home from a back-to-school event when she was stuck and killed by a truck.

Three years later, her husband, Dan Langenkamp, walked along the sidewalk on the busy state road where Maryland State Highway Administration crews had been working on Monday.

Pointing to the upgraded bike lanes on the roadway, he said, “You can see that the bike lane is now wider,” noting the horizontal green stripes that stood out against the dark asphalt.

And, he said, there will be “plastic stanchions that will help alert cars that a cyclist is there.”

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