That Southeast route makes no sense. There is literally no room for level-grade train tracks on 52nd street (south of 130th) without bulldozing the relatively new schools/houses there. They can't possibly be thinking elevated tracks in that area--residents would simply not go for it--and they're just now finishing up the 52nd street widening, not to mention the effects on real-estate values. I'd love to see true subways, but that isn't happening.
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I believe most of the station areas in the southern portion of the line are slated to be TOD nodes. So it isn't necessarily what is there now so much as what the transit connection will enable to be built in the future.
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Are TOD nodes those bus terminals they're building everywhere? I guess that's better then nothing, and explains the weird location of the stations.