Taxi & FHV Entries Into the Congestion Zone (Data)

In short: The MTA counts every vehicle that drives into the Congestion Relief Zone (Manhattan at or below 60th Street). In 2025 there were 178,203,234 entries, and 66,407,201 (37.3%) were taxis and FHVs on the per-trip plan. In January–September 2026 the share rose to 38.9% (50,062,512 of 128,667,519). That is about 184,000 taxi and FHV entries a day, and in September 2026 the monthly share reached 39.6%, the highest so far.

These numbers come from the MTA's open dataset t6yz-b64h, which we summed on October 12, 2026 (data from January 5, 2025 to October 3, 2026). An entry is a vehicle crossing into the zone, not a trip and not a charge. See the limits below.

The numbers at a glance

Monthly entries by vehicle class

Taxi and FHV entries move with the seasons like other traffic: lowest in a full month in February 2026 (4.73 million, a short month), highest in October 2025 (6.12 million). The bigger story is the share.

The taxi/FHV share line

The share stayed between 35.8% and 37.8% for most of 2025, then sat around 38.3–39.6% from October 2025 on. The MTA's own evaluation noticed the same shift: taxis and FHVs were an estimated 27.5% of weekday entries in fall 2023 counts, and about 5 percentage points more than that history on weekdays in 2025, with fewer private cars (MTA evaluation, Tables 2-2 and 2-3). The MTA warns the 2023 counts were taken in the fall and may undercount FHVs.

Whole-year totals by class

Entries vs charged trips

TLC trip records count something different: trips that were charged the congestion fee. From September 2025 to August 2026 that was about 227,000 Uber/Lyft trips and 91,000 yellow taxi trips a day, far more than the ~184,000 daily taxi/FHV entries:

Why more trips than entries? A trip that starts and ends inside the zone, or starts inside and leaves, is charged but creates no entry. One vehicle can do several zone trips after one entry. And an empty vehicle driving in to a pickup creates an entry but is not charged under the plan (IN24-10). So use entries for traffic, and trips for charges: see congestion zone trip statistics.

What the data can't tell you

• Entries ≠ charges. The MTA says this data "should not be used for revenue calculations, as entries do not include information about exemption statuses, payment methods, and repeat entries."
• Not every TLC vehicle is in the TLC class. The column notes say taxis and FHVs not charged in a per-trip charge plan "are tolled by vehicle class and appear in those categories", such as cars. The TLC class is plan vehicles only.
• No split between yellow taxis, green cabs, Uber/Lyft and black cars. For that, use trip data or the MTA evaluation.
• Excluded-road traffic is separate. Taxis and FHVs that drove in but stayed on the FDR Drive, West Side Highway or Carey connections are counted in another column (3,464,324 in 2025) and not in the totals above.
• Nothing about pay. More entries don't mean drivers earn more or less; the charge is paid by passengers.

Source, method and data lag

We summed crz_entries by month and vehicle_class from t6yz-b64h on October 12, 2026 (rows updated October 8, 2026; last day October 3, 2026). Shares are computed from those sums. The dataset is published in 10-minute blocks and can be revised.

Related data: which crossings taxis and FHVs use, what hours they enter, Manhattan traffic speeds and OATH hearings by month. Questions drivers ask: do I pay driving in empty?, did congestion pricing reduce Uber trips?, the East River bridges, and congestion pricing in your own car. Overview: congestion pricing for TLC drivers and the tolls hub.