East-West Rail to bypass Bedford???

Now that the East-West Rail route is settled i.e. avoiding Bedford and serving a Wixams Interchange one draws a line in the sand concluding Oxford sees Cambridge and vice versa and what is Bedford that they should be mindful of it? I will continue to use the X5 as out of town anything is anathema to me. I accept a load will use it but the lack of a curve from the railway towards Bedford in any shape or form throws away freight and path creation capacity and the lack of physical links with the East Coast Main Line/ECML means the benefits of Stevenage/East Beds and Peterborough/St Neots-Bedford and beyond is scuppered and disenfranchised. I hope I am proved wrong, but that is how it looks currently. If Thameslink was extended to serve Northampton a 30 minute transit to change at Wixams for Cambridge is competitive contrast 1.5 hour No. 41 bus duration and 1 hour X5 and driving with congestion and parking would be slower too. ERTA will continue to press for Bedford-Northampton rail link to give local non London centric options. It would deliver footfall and spend minus the cars to both traditional town centres contrast bypasses to out of town draining town centres. Seems a weird logic to a layman that there has been all this clamour for saving fast trains at Bedford Midland yet silence from the Borough in the media about Bedford being bypassed by East-West Rail and the fact the two links will not be linked except by protracted means - a change and cost of two trains. Will East Midlands not be tempted as with Luton and Luton Parkway not be tempted to stagger some trains to link at Wixams as the growth interchange? One presumes the Borough is content to let it be, but if I were the mayor I'd be campaigning for better joined up thinking and for Bedford town centre not to be bypassed by East-West Rail.

See here: https://www.nic.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/5thStudio-FinalReport.pdf