![]() The Civic Center hotel is one of 15 fleabag hotels in the Tenderloin, Mission, South of Market and Mid-Market that are owned or managed by the Thakor family, the target of the suit. His son, Larry Mazzola Jr., who doubles as business manager for Local 38 and chairman of the union's separately run pension fund, is also vice president of the Treasure Island Development Authority board. ![]() is president of the San Francisco Airport Commission. The plumbers union has long been a force in San Francisco politics. The Local 38 Pipe Trades Pension Trust Fund, which for years has owned the red-brick Civic Center Hotel South of Market, isn't named as a defendant in Herrera's big fraud suit. Slumming it: Turns out that one of the welfare hotels that City Attorney Dennis Herrera cited recently in a lawsuit for allegedly having deplorable conditions is actually owned by the powerful plumbers union pension fund. Only, in this case, the real incentive might be to just beat the inevitable backup. "We still want to incentivize people to use the bridge on the off peak," said MTC spokesman Randy Rentschler. Nor is the congestive pricing - which was intended to provide relief. Whatever the case, the rush-hour backups aren't likely to go away anytime soon. Just as it did before congestive pricing. The snapshot, however, shows that the increased traffic, brought on by the better economy, has remained at its old pattern - hitting 8,500 cars per hour by 6 a.m. The idea was to encourage drivers to cross at nonpeak hours. The off-hour price has stayed at $4 - a $2 savings. ![]() Under the new pricing strategy, commuters are charged $2 more between the hours of 5 a.m. Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Show More Show Less (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of11 Westbound traffic flows across the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge while a demolition crew begins dismantling the old one in Oakland, Calif. Train operators, mechanics, station agents and maintenance workers are seeking a five percent wage increase and are fighting management who want to have workers to begin contributing to their pensions, pay more for health insurance and reduce overtime expenses. For a second day, hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay Area commuters are scrambling to find ways to work after two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) largest unions went on strike early yesterday morning following contract negotiations with management falling apart the day before. 1 of11 OAKLAND, CA - JULY 02: Commuter traffic backs up at the toll plaza to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Jin Oakland, California. ![]()
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