You know how employers interviewing you for a job will sometimes ask "Do you have reliable transportation?" and turn you down if you admit you don't have a car?
Well, here's more support for the fact that you should always just say "Yes, I have reliable transportation" and not specify further, even if you're without a car at the moment.
Today I got in to work. On time. There was about a foot of snow-- deeper, maybe knee-deep, in the drifts, which covered the sidewalks and much of the road. My husband's car couldn't get out of the driveway. Same with many of my coworkers' cars. Some called in, some arrived late.
But I was there on time. I had to wade through knee-deep snow part of the way, between buses, but I did it.
If you don't have a car, and you do have a bus route from home to work, you can get to work. With some exceptions, like crappy bus routes that only run once or twice a day, but if you have a decent, regularly running bus, you can get there. Even if you miss a bus, you can catch the next one. You'll be late, but you'll be there.
But if you do have a car, and don't have a bus route, then if your car fails, you are completely out of luck. Your only option is to take a cab, which, depending on the job and the location, can cost more than you earn in a day of work, and defeat the whole purpose of going.
A bus is MORE reliable transportation than a car. If you can take the bus, you have reliable transportation