Film director Woody Allen and his neighbors living on Manhattan's Upper East Side are facing backlash for not voting in favor of setting up a bike lane in the area back in 2016 after a cyclist was fatally hit by a truck on East 85th Street on Tuesday.Carling Mott, 28, and a resident living on 84th Street, was riding a Citi Bike at around 11 a.m. towards Madison Avenue between parked cars and a semi-trailer truck that had just started to move on a green signal when she was hit.In 2016, Allen reportedly objected to a proposal from 's Department of Transportation's to Community Board 8 to have six bike lanes across the Upper East Side that would go through East 84th and 85th Streets, as well as East 78th, 77th, 68th and 67th Streets, according to several local news outlets.
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