A fifth person in nine days has been killed cycling on London's roads.
The man died in hospital in the early hours following a collision with a double-decker bus in Whitechapel Road near Aldgate East station, in east London, late on Wednesday.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called for cycle superhighways to "physically separate cyclists from roads".
On Wednesday, a vigil was held after Venera Minakhmetova, 24, was killed in a crash with a lorry at Bow Roundabout.
It is thought the Russian national, who was living in the Bethnal Green area, had been cycling on Cycle Superhighway 2 (CS2) just before the collision, while the man who died earlier was on CS2 when he was fatally injured.
The superhighways - cycle routes running from outer London into and across central London - were designed to provide safe, fast and direct journeys for cyclists. Mayor Boris Johnson's Vision for Cycling document also proposes the introduction of so-called Quietways on "low-traffic back streets" for cyclists to use.
'Rapid review needed'Mr Clegg told LBC: "Distressing as all this is, I really hope it doesn't discourage people from bicycling - it's got to be made safer and we have got to have more of these bicycling superhighways which physically separate cyclists from roads."
"We as a government have said we want to make new road schemes fit for cyclists and at the same time we'll look at every other suggestion to make this a safe thing to do."
Shadow infrastructure minister Andrew Adonis said on Twitter that Boris Johnson must review the situation.
He said: "The mayor should appoint a rapid independent review of superhighways after the horror of all these cyclists' deaths in London."
Thirteen cyclists have died on London's roads so far this year. Fourteen died in 2012, according to Transport for London (TfL).
'Panic measure'Defending CS2, Mr Johnson said: "We're not going to get rid of CS2 but what we are doing and what has long been part of the cycling vision is we are going to have a lot of quietways as well, so there will be alternative routes through to Stratford from Hackney."
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Boris Johnson: "Cycle superhighways will remain"
The mayor's cycling commissioner, Andrew Gilligan, told BBC London: "The danger in the current atmosphere of understandable alarm and concern is that we rush into some panic measure which actually makes things worse."
He said there were three deaths in the first six and a half months of the year in similar road conditions to the current ones.
2010: 10 deaths, four involving HGVs
2011: 16 deaths, 12 involving HGVs
2012: 14 deaths, five involving HGVs
2013 so far: 13 deaths, eight involving HGVs
Source: TfL
Mr Gilligan said the death toll over the past nine days was "extraordinary" and added: "From the beginning, Superhighway 2 has been little more than blue paint and I've been pressing to change it."
He said plans to upgrade all the superhighway routes would go out to consultation in four months and that it would take 11 months for any changes to happen.
He pointed out that there were 69 pedestrian deaths last year but that pedestrians do not have as strong a voice in the media.
- On Tuesday, a cyclist in his 40s died after a crash with a bus in Croydon, south London.
- On Wednesday, a woman in her 20s was killed in a lorry crash at Bow Roundabout in east London.
The Met said three of those killed have family abroad. This has slowed up the formal identification process.
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