Why will traffic be attracted with a new terminal that won't be attracted initially with the current one ?
Whenever I GA through Southend I walk out through this quite large, modern, completely empty terminal building.
I think the train station has been proposed for the last 50 years. It was certainly in prospect when the line was changed to electric trains in the 1950s (when of course there was quite a lot of passenger traffic through a terminal building smaller than the current one).
Airhumberside :
The Olympics traffic in 2012 will be for three weeks. You don't build big capital investment projects for that.