I don’t think Varsity is in the wrong spot - TMR has just dropped the ball by failing to get a developer on board to do something with it. Similarly Nerang.
Ormeau is very much in the wrong spot though.
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I don’t think that would have helped matters honestly - it was pretty well inevitable that the Varsity Lakes town centre would be co-located with the Bond University campus, which long predated the railway line. Bond was the original major destination of the area.
Similarly, the Nerang township dates back from the 1870s - while the train station’s location alongside the M1 makes sense from that respect, they still put it on the opposite side of the M1, ~1.5km from the town centre. Also, the flood prone nature of the vacant land neighbouring Nerang Station would have been an issue as well (which handily preserved that track of land for use as part of the Coomera Connector).
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