Even before Coolidge, Beacon can be a bit much -- parking on both sides, drivers using turn lanes (and the space behind the slant-parked cars, eek) to pass other cars, etc. Going from downtown to Brighton, if it's a game night, often I'll just skip the agida and swing all the way around the other side of the Fens, cut across Longwood and up to Coolidge Corner, and then up whoosywhatsis street that becomes Warren Street to St. E's.