Where Taxis & FHVs Enter the Congestion Zone

In short: Taxis and FHVs mostly enter the Congestion Relief Zone from the north, across 60th Street. In 2025, East 60th Street was the busiest entry point with 14,450,988 taxi/FHV entries, 21.8% of the 66,407,201 total. The four 60th Street points together took 49.1%. The least used was the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (1,693,918, 2.6%). The order barely moved in January–September 2026.

These figures are our sums of the MTA's open entries data (t6yz-b64h) for vehicles in the "TLC Taxi/FHV" class, fetched October 12, 2026. They count entries, not trips and not charges.

The numbers at a glance

Queens crossings (Queensboro Bridge and Queens-Midtown Tunnel) took the remaining 18.6%. In other words, about half of all taxi and FHV entries come in from the north across 60th Street, not over a bridge or through a tunnel.

Ranking chart

Full table, with excluded roadway entries

How to read it:

• Taxis and FHVs dominate the 60th Street street entries. At West 60th St, 55.8% of all entering vehicles were taxis or FHVs; at East 60th St, 52.9%.
• New Jersey tunnels are mostly private traffic. Taxis and FHVs were only 16.6% of Lincoln Tunnel entries and 24.9% at the Holland. Those are the crossings where a private car with E-ZPass gets a $3 crossing credit at peak; a TLC trip pays a flat per-trip charge instead.
• Excluded roadway entries exist only at four points: FDR Drive (1.72M taxi/FHV), Brooklyn Bridge (1.05M), Carey Tunnel (0.49M) and West Side Highway (0.20M). These vehicles came in on the highways and stayed on them. The MTA's rule is that staying on the FDR, the West Side Highway or the Carey connections to West Street is not a zone entry (MTA FAQ).
• Stable order. In January–September 2026 the top three are unchanged; the Queensboro Bridge (4.69M) moved just ahead of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel (4.55M), and the Holland Tunnel passed the West Side Highway entry.

What the data can't tell you

• Not which industry. The class lumps yellow taxis, green cabs, Uber/Lyft and black cars together.
• Only plan vehicles. Taxis and FHVs not charged through a per-trip plan "are tolled by vehicle class" and appear under cars (t6yz-b64h).
• Not trips or charges. One vehicle can enter several times a day, empty or with a passenger. The charge belongs to the passenger's trip, not to the entry. See trips charged the fee.
• Not routes. An entry at East 60th Street could be a trip from the Bronx, Queens via the RFK Bridge, or Harlem. The data records only the entry point where the vehicle was counted, not where its trip began.
• Pickup rules also shape where vehicles go: green cabs can't pick up in the zone; see who can pick up where.

Source, method and data lag

We summed crz_entries and excluded_roadway_entries by detection_group for vehicle_class = "TLC Taxi/FHV" and by year, from t6yz-b64h on October 12, 2026 (rows updated October 8, 2026). "Share at this crossing" divides taxi/FHV entries by all vehicle classes' entries at the same crossing. 2025 starts January 5. 2026 covers January 1 – September 30. The MTA can revise the data.

Map of the 12 entry points and the zone edges: Congestion Relief Zone boundaries. When vehicles enter: entries by hour. Monthly totals: taxi and FHV entries. Related questions: are WAVs exempt? and charged twice in one day?. More in the tolls hub.