A bicycle is not suitable for the 100km trip to see my parents, and the only country that can operate trains at a satisfactory level is Japan (and maybe China, but I don't trust their data).

So no, its either this or a gas car. Both are real solutions that work, today. Changing society from the bottom up is not.

or a bus.

But then again it's amazing how we ignore the infrastructure costs of building and maintaining the roads to run the cars everywhere.