Shift into Neutral to save TO Bearing?

[Roy Wendell]

So far everyone has missed an obvious reason to be in neutral at the  
light - making sure that you don't rear end the car in front of you or  
inadvertently end up in the intersection. A moment's inattention, a  
hydraulic failure, or in the case of the type 44, breakage of the  
clutch pedal, and you lurch forward. I myself had a hydraulic clutch  
slave leak down while sitting in traffic and if I hadn't been really  
quick with the brake and stalled the motor I'd have been filling out a  
police report. In one of my 5ktqs I experienced a failure of the  
throwout bearing carrier that resulted in permanent engagement of the  
clutch. Luckily that happened on an off ramp while downshifting so I  
had plenty of time to unload the drivetrain and get the transmission  
in neutral.

Roy