We are missing a whole lot of details to this story.

A couple more ...
-- How far away does the OP live from the place of employment?
-- Is there alternate transportation to the place of employment?

I worked for a company that was located 35 km away from where I lived, out in the country. And there was no public transportation out there. One of the questions I was asked in the interview was whether or not I had reliable transportation. A perfectly reasonable question because they want to know if the potential employee can get there regularly, or if it is going to be difficult to get there.

Cycling 70 km/day year round through a Canadian prairie winter would not have been doable.


And in this case the OP did not even have an interview. So how does he know he was turned down because of transportation?