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@Oliver Schick
The Holborn contraflow bus-only lane thing is just going to run and run until TfL finally return Holborn to full two-way operation. It is of course nonsense to speculate that the death might have been caused by the current rubbish (inconvenient and antiquated) arrangement, as such deaths have happened at plenty of ordinary junctions which are much less alarming, but there is no question that currently cyclists wishing to go east-west are getting a bum deal. Not only do they have to negotiate the ridiculous and excessively alarming one-way system up to the Kingsway/Southampton Row junction, but they then also have to execute a right turn across multiple lanes of moving traffic into New Oxford Street from High Holborn.
Both what Charlie suggests and widening the bus lane could obviously not be done literally tomorrow, but it certainly wouldn't take a very long time to change the traffic order(s) involved and tweak the layout. Still, the best option would be full two-way working, which would take longer and attract a higher cost, but as this should long have been done to all London gyratories, anyway, Holborn wouldn't be a bad place to start getting a move on at last. (It should be noted that Tottenham Hale has just gone two-way and they are working on King's Cross, and probably a few others I've forgotten about, as we type.)