There's no denying that the Powderhouse Rotary is poorly designed and that there are a lot of things vying for your attention from many different directions. As both an every day pedestrian and occassional driver through that rotary, it's just a bad scene no matter what role you're playing.

However, I'm a pedestrian who waits for the light to turn red. If drivers paid attention to the red lights, they wouldn't need to worry about seeing me the pedestrian, other cars in the rotary or other cars entering the rotary. Admittedly, I'm one of a few pedestrians who do that for this rotary. But I'd like to believe that if more drivers paid attention to the lights, more pedestrians would wait for the light. I'm probably wrong though. But that just goes back to my comment earlier - drivers and pedestrians both need to be aware, pedestrians more so because they will always lose in a battle with a car.

And more than once, people have looked at me like I was crazy because I was waiting for the light only for them to bolt out in front of a car and then run for their life when they realize the car isn't slowing down for them. I'll take looking like a fool waiting for the light over being a fool trying to outrun a car any day.