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NY MTA congestion-pricing toll & crossing volume

Manhattan CBD congestion toll rate and E-ZPass crossing counts

Feed detail
Measures
Manhattan CBD congestion toll rate and E-ZPass crossing counts
Source
MTA open data portal / Port Authority of NY & NJ traffic data
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Live CBD toll revenue and crossing volume gauge Manhattan economic activity and consumer willingness-to-pay in near real time, ahead of regional economic releases
Maps to
regional CPI/economic activity
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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