The fast lane.

OK, so just a little quirk of Italian highway ingenuity I have to share.  The other day Kate and I were driving on the A-1: Italy’s version of I-95.  We came upon some road construction.  It went from three lanes to two - nothing out of the ordinary.  But instead of keeping the lanes together, they closed the middle lane and split the lanes right and left.  Ok, still nothing out of the ordinary.  Kate and I merged left.  Most cars merged right...  Up ahead the fast lane of oncoming traffic was closed also, and the cars we were following were going over a make-shift ramp, over the median, and into the closest lane of oncoming traffic.  They had closed the ‘fast lane’ of oncoming traffic, and allowed cars flowing in the opposite direction to ride past the construction.  No barriers.  No cones.  Just the Anderson family traveling at 120 km/hr in one direction and other cars traveling at 120 km/hr in the other.  If we went slower that 120 the car behind us would flash its lights.  I guess they still considered it the ‘fast lane’.