For me, I hate riding in town, getting stuck at slow traffic lights, an sitting, now always shut my motor down, sit waiting till a green before firing up and going, filtering is not allowed here either, but I try to keep moving and ignore to some extent if I can, again shutting down while waiting for road works ect...
About to move my 11s on to 15/50 Motul 5100 semi synthetic at 30k kilometres