party rumor - Track Transrapid is sinking

Easter is party time here in Shanghai and an excellent time to exchange the latest gossip and rumors. Winner this year is the - most likely true - story from German engineers that the track of the Maglev or Transrapid in Shanghai is sinking.
During the construction by a local company German engineers already complained about the sloppy building procedure and now they claim they can see from arriving airplanes the track has started to sink. According to the engineers involved it would take about two to three years time before the Transrapid would have to halt operations.
The project is heavily subsidized by the German government and would have been a pilot project for the Shanghai-Beijing track and the Shanghai-Hangzhou track. The Shanghai-Beijing track is already written off and a problem on the pilot project might also kill other proposed projects in the world.