Left lane closed. No, your other left.

Left lane closed ahead.

No, your other left.

P.S. A snarky blogger might make a political joke right about now. Something like,

Shutting down the left is a shovel ready job, or

Government - the left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. No wait, it's the other way around.

But no. Here at Sleepless in Midland we're above that sort of thing.