”If I see a person with a guide dog I can work out what to do.”

So, within the constraints placed by the new rules, precisely what would you do to ‘give whoever's on the pavement the benefit and proceed accordingly’ when the person waiting to cross is blind/visually impaired and unable to see and understand what you’re doing or what signals you might be making, and his/her assistance dog is doing exactly as it was trained to do and refusing to cross the road because of the presence of your vehicle? How would you safely solve the impasse (bearing in mind that the situation may be complicated by there being other traffic around) whilst acting within the restrictions of the new rules? How would you communicate your intentions to a guide-dog, who understands only that he/she must not cross when vehicles are present, and to his/her blind/visually-impaired handler who places his trust, and thus his life, on the dog doing precisely as it was trained to do?

Bear in mind that this change in the rules is a genuine concern for guide-dog users, disadvantaged as they are when compared to sighted pedestrians (my wife’s friend has confirmed that it’s so) and that not all drivers are as cautious or considerate as you.