If all goes well, the Twin Villages could potentially look a bit like twin towns to the south.

With the recent Damariscotta and Newcastle bike and pedestrian surveys being completed, Lincoln County Planner Robert Faunce shared the bike survey committee's findings at the Damariscotta board of selectmen meeting Wednesday, May 6.

One possibility could involve adding a bike and walkway around the Great Salt Bay, akin to the one in Brunswick and Topsham, should the funds become available.

Faunce said that potential project, along with another proposed connector from Sheepscot village to Newcastle's downtown, were floated by the survey committee. Should the funds become available, those were two of the suggested possible long-range projects.

But the first step was the survey, Faunce said. More than 200 people and students from the Twin Villages and surrounding towns filled out the survey, which asked respondents where and how often the bike in the area, and what changes, if any, they would like to see. The survey, which was conducted by the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission, will be sent to the Maine Department of Transportation and could be used to secure funds.

“It was a pretty intensive process,” Faunce said.

The report also highlighted some of the trouble areas around town when it comes to sidewalks. Although the town has used a Community Development Block Grant to rebuild the sidewalks on Church and Chapman streets, the Bristol Road sidewalk project has yet to start and a 2015 CDBG grant for the Day Block and Theater Street was denied.

When Damariscotta completed a similar survey in 2008, the results included the sidewalk project that linked Yellowfront Grocery and Rising Tide Market to downtown, while the Miles Road connector is expected to be completed in 2016.

In addition to such large projects as a Newcastle connector, one of the missions going forward will be to add crosswalks at busy intersections, such as near Miles Road and near Hannaford's while also improving some of the existing crosswalks.

According to Faunce, several thousand people use the Brunswick bike and pedestrian path yearly on the weekends, and should Damariscotta and Newcastle decide to do something similar, the towns could expect a boost in activity.

“Then we'll just need to find out where they will all park,” Selectman Robin Mayer said.

“They won't park — they'll just ride their bikes here,” quipped fellow Selectman James Cosgrove.

In the end, the board endorsed the study, 4-0. Faunce said he would discuss the final results of the survey Monday, May 11 with the Newcastle board of selectmen.