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Oliver Schick
I don't know which turning was involved in this incident, but your description of the junction is incorrect.
Nithsdale Drive and Calder Street are both one way heading west - the only left turns at that junction are from Calder St to Pollokshaws Rd or Pollokshaws Rd to Nithsdale St. There's a left filter lane on the end of Calder St but it starts very close to the junction, so most drivers begin to turn left from the middle (straight ahead) lane. It is a horrible junction for cyclists.
There's been a lot of new cycling infrastructure put into the southside of Glasgow recently but it's all radial to the centre of town, and there are very few cycle-friendly routes to go east-west in the southside.