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Although the South City Way on Victoria Rd is brilliant, there aren't many other isolated / fully segregated routes around at the moment.

It's useful that you live close to Queen's Park though. You can use that as a node to connect to a few quiet street routes / on either side, and that really does open up viable bike journeys where you're barely interacting with traffic.

A good West-East route you might find useful for getting around the Southside is one that goes from the SW corner of Queen's Park to Cathcart. The route is something like:

South along Tantallon Road until you get to the old bridge over the River Cart at the corner of Langside Rd and Millbrae Cresent. From there there's a great path that hugs the river all the way to Battlefield. This riverside path then joins onto Spean Street, which follows the river all the way to Cathcart. The pavement on Spean Street is an official "shared use" path, extra wide for pedestrians and cyclists - though it's not unusual to find cars parked along it unfortunately, creating lots of choke points. Anyway, that's a very useful 'sideways' route across several Southside neighborhoods.

Another useful one to know about is that you can more or less get from the NW corner of Queen's Park, to the South West City Way segregated cycle route in Pollokshields, with a mix of quiet streets / shared pavements and pathways: Cross at the junction of Balvicar Street and Pollokshaws Road and go straight along Queen's Square in Strathbungo. Turn right on Moray Place and use the footbridge over the railway to cross into Pollokshields. Then head straight up Kenmure Street, turn left at Maxwell Road, then right once you reach Shields Road. At the end of that dead end you'll cross to meet the South West City Way, which will take you to the city centre via Tradeston. Also, the pavements around the big Seaward Street motorway junction are shared use, and give you a reasonably easy - if awkward - way to reach Kinning Park, Ibrox and even the riverside via side streets.